Definition of FAZE

faze

Verb

Verb Forms: fazed, fazing, fazes

  • To disturb someone's composure; to daunt.
  • disturb the composure of
  • To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb.

Examples

  • Jumping out of an airplane does not faze him, yet he is afraid to ride a roller coaster.
  • No amount of trash talk could FAZE the seasoned Scrabble player.

Origin / 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.

Scrabble Score: 16

faze: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
faze: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
faze: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

faze: valid Words With Friends Word