Meaning

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

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

    aus der Fassung bringen, in Unruhe versetzen, abschrecken

More definitions
  • disturb the composure of

Examples

8 sentences
  1. Tom didn't seem fazed at all.

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  2. I didn't let it faze me.

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  3. Tom certainly wasn't fazed by what Mary said.

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  4. Tom isn't fazed.

    ruТом не тревожится.

    deTom ist nicht verwirrt.

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  5. That threat didn't faze him in the slightest.

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Translations

5 languages
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By meaning 1
to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb:

Origin

From English dialectal (Kentish) feeze, feese (“to alarm, discomfit, frighten”), from Midd

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”).

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Forms

fazes, fazing, fazed, fazed
Base formfaze · to faze
3rd person singularfazes
Present participlefazing
Past simplefazed
Past participlefazed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfaze
he, she, itfazes

Past simpleLesson

all personsfazed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave fazed
he, she, ithas fazed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill faze

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

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