Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to faze
Participle: fazed
Gerund: fazing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | faze |
| you | faze |
| he;she;it | fazes |
| we | faze |
| you | faze |
| they | faze |
Perfect
| I | have fazed |
| you | have fazed |
| he;she;it | has fazed |
| we | have fazed |
| you | have fazed |
| they | have fazed |
Past
| I | fazed |
| you | fazed |
| he;she;it | fazed |
| we | fazed |
| you | fazed |
| they | fazed |
Pluperfect
| I | had fazed |
| you | had fazed |
| he;she;it | had fazed |
| we | had fazed |
| you | had fazed |
| they | had fazed |
Future
| I | will faze |
| you | will faze |
| he;she;it | will faze |
| we | will faze |
| you | will faze |
| they | will faze |
Future Perfect
| I | will have fazed |
| you | will have fazed |
| he;she;it | will have fazed |
| we | will have fazed |
| you | will have fazed |
| they | will have fazed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | faze |
| you | faze |
| he;she;it | faze |
| we | faze |
| you | faze |
| they | faze |
Perfect
| I | have fazed |
| you | have fazed |
| he;she;it | have fazed |
| we | have fazed |
| you | have fazed |
| they | have fazed |
Imperfect
| I | fazed |
| you | fazed |
| he;she;it | fazed |
| we | fazed |
| you | fazed |
| they | fazed |
Pluperfect
| I | had fazed |
| you | had fazed |
| he;she;it | had fazed |
| we | had fazed |
| you | had fazed |
| they | had fazed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would faze |
| you | would faze |
| he;she;it | would faze |
| we | would faze |
| you | would faze |
| they | would faze |
Perfect
| I | would have fazed |
| you | would have fazed |
| he;she;it | would have fazed |
| we | would have fazed |
| you | would have fazed |
| they | would have fazed |
Imperative
| you | faze |
| we | Let's faze |
| you | faze |
Verbs conjugated like 'faze'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'faze'
baze,
daze,
face,
fade,
fake,
fame,
fare,
fate,
fave,
feaze,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1830 Amer.Eng. variant of Kentish dialect
feeze "to frighten, alarm, discomfit" (c.1440), from O.E.
fesian, fysian "drive away," from P.Gmc.
*fausjanan.
2. 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”).
3. Citations for faze in the Oxford English Dictionary start in 1830, and usage was established by 1890. See: Proto-Germanic '
*funsijaną'.
Sample Sentences
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Jumping out of an airplane does not faze him, yet he is afraid to ride a roller coaster.
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But we're / Not getting anywhere. Nothing / fazes her. [1965, Catullus, translated by Barriss Mills, The Carmina of Catullus: A Verse Translation, [West Lafayette, Ind.]: Purdue University Studies, →OCLC, carminum 42, page 71:]
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In the dreary world / That we're living in / It's fashionable / To let nothing faze you [1978, “Living in a Dream”, in On the Edge, performed by Sea Level:]
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Some individuals "can't hold their liquor" and become thoroughly intoxicated on small amounts of alcohol which would not faze most social drinkers. [1990, “Assessment”, in Broadening the Base of Treatment for Alcohol Problems: Report of a Study by a Committee of the Institute of Medicine, Division of Mental Health and Behavioral Medicine, Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, →ISBN, section III (Aspects of Treatment), pages 252–253:]
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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. [2009, Richard Wigmore, The Faber Pocket Guide to Haydn, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 192:]
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[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. [2017 November 10, Daniel Taylor, “Youthful England earn draw with Germany but Lingard rues late miss”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2018:]