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feaze

1 American  
[feez] / fiz /

verb (used with object)

Nautical.
feazed, feazing
  1. to untwist (the end of a rope).


feaze 2 American  
[feez, feyz] / fiz, feɪz /

noun

Dialect.
  1. feeze.


feaze 1 British  
/ fiːz /

verb

  1. nautical to make or become unravelled or frayed

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

feaze 2 British  
/ fiːz /

verb

  1. a variant of feeze faze

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas

I decided that nothing could feaze Luther Merrill.

From Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm by Thomas Fogarty

But it's only fair to warn you that it may turn up some things that'll feaze you.

From The Price by Francis Lynde

Doctor," said Dick, "this man has a job to turn out tonight that would feaze many a fellow in his sober senses.

From The Lash by Olin L. Lyman

The report of things out of order usually sets landlords in a feaze, but you keep as serene as the moon with your tenant's complaints.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various

He eyed her sharply to see if she were "feazed."

From Winnie Childs The Shop Girl by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson

The hard problems of his job never feazed him.

From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Edward Hungerford

Then he said: "You feazed me a little at first; but I think I know now what has happened."

From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe

Challoner was not feazed; it was the answer he expected.

From The Red Mouse by William Hamilton Osborne

That, as he had expected it to do, rather feazed the Happy Family for a few minutes.

From The Phantom Herd by B. M. Bower

Nevertheless, far from feazing him, Challoner felt that in some subtle way the question fitted in with his scheme of things.

From The Red Mouse by William Hamilton Osborne

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