feaze

¹ American

[feez] / fiz /

verb (used with object)

Nautical.

feazed, feazing

to untwist (the end of a rope).

feaze ² American

[feez, feyz] / fiz, feɪz /

noun

Dialect.

feeze.

feaze ¹ British

/ fiːz /

verb

nautical to make or become unravelled or frayed

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feaze ² British

/ fiːz /

verb

a variant of feeze faze

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Etymology

Origin of feaze

1560–70; akin to Dutch vezelen to fray, Middle Dutch veze frayed edge, Old English fæs fringe

Example Sentences

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Just shut your teeth hard, and say over and over again that you ain't goin' to let anything feaze you.

From Woodcraft or, How a Patrol Leader Made Good by Douglas, Alan

Why should one strive and cry and get into a feaze about tyrants and liars?

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin

"Merely that yonder oil-shoot turned into a mud-bath doesn't feaze him," chuckled Jack to Mark.

From On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake by Rockwood, Roy

But a little thing like that didn't feaze him.

From Shorty McCabe by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)

You can't feaze Vee, though, when she starts in to be folksy.

From Torchy As A Pa by Ford, Sewell

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