faze
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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 wear and tear of an intense road trip in which the first five games all came down to the final minutes didn’t faze Doncic.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
That’s why the growing hardship number, while dramatic, doesn’t necessarily faze experts yet.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026
Playing in Australia is unlikely to faze the North Korean players, who receive "political training" to cope with being in a foreign country, according to Edinburgh University's Lee.
From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026
"Nothing seems to faze her at all and she just does her thing, that's what I love. When she is on that oche, she is just another being."
From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025
As if those things could faze me now.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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