feaze
1 Americanverb (used with object)
noun
verb
verb
Etymology
Origin of feaze
1560–70; akin to Dutch vezelen to fray, Middle Dutch veze frayed edge, Old English fæs fringe
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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 Alan Douglas
He is in a great feaze about some property that he thinks is owing to him somewhere, and he has been giving me a long detail of matters and things connected with the business.
From Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner
"I was afraid our horses would get tired going against the wind," said Tom, "but it didn't seem to feaze them."
From The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure by Wyn Roosevelt
Her opinion of him, however, did not feaze Harris in the least.
From The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks by Amy Bell Marlowe
I decided that nothing could feaze Luther Merrill.
From Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm by Thomas Fogarty
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
It was a bad mess, but Leonidas wasn't feazed a bit.
From Shorty McCabe by F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson
He might not have been afraid of a man–or a dozen men; no emergency–which he could talk out of–would have feazed him; but a man doesn’t feel like trying to talk down a skeleton!
From The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks by Amy Bell Marlowe
The hard problems of his job never feazed him.
From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Edward Hungerford
The really great person is the one who even in a panic does not lose his head, and the next best thing to not being feazed at danger is, I believe, to be literally paralyzed.
From On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes by Mildred Aldrich
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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