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Faze

//feɪz// verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. informal, transitive

    "Jumping out of an airplane does not faze him, yet he is afraid to ride a roller coaster."

  2. 2
    disturb the composure of wordnet

Etymology

From English dialectal (Kentish) feeze, feese (“to alarm, discomfit, frighten”), from Middle English fēsen (“to chase, drive away; put to flight; discomfit, frighten, terrify”), from Old English fēsan, fȳsan (“to send forth; to hasten, impel, stimulate; to banish, drive away, put to flight; to prepare oneself”), from Proto-West Germanic *funsijan, from Proto-Germanic *funsijaną (“to predispose, make favourable; to make ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go; to walk”). The word is cognate with Old Saxon fūsian (“to strive”), Old Norse fýsa (“to drive, goad; to admonish”). Citations for faze in the Oxford English Dictionary start in 1830, and usage was established by 1890.

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