faze
verb /feɪz/
/feɪz/
(informal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they faze | /feɪz/ /feɪz/ |
| he / she / it fazes | /ˈfeɪzɪz/ /ˈfeɪzɪz/ |
| past simple fazed | /feɪzd/ /feɪzd/ |
| past participle fazed | /feɪzd/ /feɪzd/ |
| -ing form fazing | /ˈfeɪzɪŋ/ /ˈfeɪzɪŋ/ |
- faze somebody to make you feel confused or shocked, so that you do not know what to do synonym disconcert
- She wasn't fazed by his comments.
- He looked as if nothing could faze him.
Word Originmid 19th cent. (originally US): variant of dialect feeze ‘drive or frighten off’, from Old English fēsian, of unknown origin.