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/feɪz/ · verb
(transitive, 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.
But we're / Not getting anywhere. Nothing / fazes her.
In the dreary world / That we're living in / It's fashionable / To let nothing faze you
Some individuals "can't hold their liquor" and become thoroughly intoxicated on small amounts of alcohol which would not faze most social drinkers.
He sticks it out even further in the scherzo, fazing the listener with displaced accents, and then inserting a malicious pause just when we seem to have found our feet.
[Gareth] Southgate should be absolutely clear now that [Jordan] Pickford is not fazed by the big occasion but, on the flip-side, he might not be too thrilled his goalkeeper was involved so much.
Use faze when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Faze means (transitive, informal) To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb..
Common synonyms include enervate, unnerve, unsettle.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Jumping out of an airplane does not faze him, yet he is afraid to ride a roller coaster.
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