English

Alternative forms

• feaze

Verb

faze ‎(third-person singular simple present fazes, present participle fazing, simple past and past participle fazed)

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

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

Usage notes

• Citations for faze in the Oxford English Dictionary start in 1830; usage was established by 1890.
• The word phase is sometimes used incorrectly for faze;^[1] such notables as The New York Times and Mark Twain have made this error. This sometimes leads to the supposition that faze is an uneducated spelling of phase; they are distinct terms.

Related terms

• unfazed

Translations

References

1. ↑ “Faze/Phase”, Brians, Paul Common Errors in English Usage, (2nd Edition, November 17, 2008), William, James & Company, 304 pp., ISBN 978-1-59028207-6