faze
Americanverb (used with object)
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fazes,
present (3rd person singular)
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fazed,
past participle, past
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fazing
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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fazesimple
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fazessimple
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have fazedperfect
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has fazedperfect
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am fazingprogressive
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are fazingprogressive
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is fazingprogressive
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have been fazingperfect progressive
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has been fazingperfect progressive
Past
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fazedsimple
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had fazedperfect
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was fazingprogressive
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were fazingprogressive
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had been fazingperfect progressive
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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"After working a kilometre underground, finding themselves hundreds of metres above the ground doesn't really faze them," he says.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
If it happens, I don't think it will faze the England players, and neither will Mexico's record at the Azteca.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
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
That’s why the growing hardship number, while dramatic, doesn’t necessarily faze experts yet.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 4, 2026
She is now walking several feet ahead, pretending I don’t exist, but that’s okay, I’m used to it, and what she doesn’t know is that it doesn’t faze me.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
Oh my gosh, she’s a pure machine in the water, nothing fazes her.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2024
"I've got no limits now, nothing fazes me," says Clark.
From BBC ● May 5, 2024
“Nothing fazes us. We showed that in Buffalo,” said Peterson, who aided a 33-30 overtime victory over the Bills on Nov. 13 after a 17-point deficit.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2022
None of that fazes Vasily, a 26-year-old street performer in an oversize bear suit in Kyiv’s central square.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2022
On the other hand, nothing fazes Madame Ionesco, and she’s as good a baker as she is a prognosticator.”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
It’s a few minutes after 10 a.m. on a recent morning and the thermometer is closing in on 95 degrees, but Marc Papas isn’t fazed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
A nearly 40% slide in shares of Michael Saylor’s bitcoin-hoarding company this year hasn’t fazed its most fervent believers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
England were three down inside five overs and 140 adrift of their target, but Bethell and Banton were not fazed by the task.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Aditya Bhave, head of U.S. economics at the Bank of America, however, is little fazed by the potential broader impact on consumption.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 31, 2026
My mom gave Wilfrido the most intense look, but he didn’t seem fazed.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
Separately Thursday, the company was hit by an antitrust investigation from the European Union, although the Brussels probe wasn’t fazing investors and will have little impact on the stock.
From Barron's ● Dec. 4, 2025
But none of this seems to be fazing Swift herself, whose fandom keeps chugging right along.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2023
The last time a royal was cross-examined in a British courtroom is believed to have been 1891, but that does not appear to be fazing Harry.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
But it doesn't look like their inexperience of being in a title race is fazing them at the moment.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2023
Turning 51 doesn't seem to be fazing Jennifer Aniston.
From Fox News ● Feb. 11, 2020
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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