faze
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Conjugated Forms
Present
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has fazedperfect 3rd person singular
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have fazedperfect
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have been fazingperfect progressive
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are fazingprogressive
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am fazingprogressive 1st person singular
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fazessingular 3rd person
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is fazingprogressive 3rd person singular
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has been fazingperfect progressive 3rd person singular
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fazingparticiple
Past
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had fazedperfect
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were fazingprogressive plural
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had been fazingperfect progressive
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was fazingprogressive singular
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fazedsimple
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fazedparticiple
Future
Etymology
Origin of faze
First recorded in 1820–30, dialectal form of feeze
Explanation
If nothing can faze you, you are unflappable. Nothing bothers you, or gets you off your game. To faze is to disrupt or disturb. Faze is a new word, descending from a word that meant to frighten away. At basketball games, when a player is shooting a foul shot, fans behind the net will try to faze the player by waving towels and making loud noise. They are trying to disturb him, so that he misses the kind of shot he's made thousands of times before.
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Example Sentences
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The jabs don’t seem to faze Gorka, who tells a story of standing outside the White House in January 2025, ready to swipe his badge the moment it was activated after Trump’s swearing-in.
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026
The gunfire did not appear to faze tourists, who ascended Morro Dois Irmaos at dawn on Tuesday to watch the sunrise over Rio's sweeping panorama of mountains and curved beaches.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
Yet building strong relationships with the players did not seem to faze the former Liverpool defender.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026
Matthews took over the leadoff position, but it did not faze her.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026
It didn’t seem to faze Alec quite as much.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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