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faze

v.
B2 Upper Intermediate US //ˈfeɪz// UK //fˈeɪz// faze Informal

v. to worry or upset someone, especially when something unexpected happens. You use this when you want to say that a situation does not change your mind or your behavior.

v. to cause a person to feel slightly worried or unsettled, typically in response to an unexpected or unusual event. Often used in the negative to indicate that a situation has no effect on a person's resolve.


SIMPLE

I am not fazed by the loud noise.

CONTEXTUAL

The sudden change in the schedule did not faze the team, as they had already planned for delays.

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Origin

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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