to faze
- verb
- /feɪz/
- She was so confident in her abilities that nothing could faze her during the competition.
So these types of compliments don't really faze them a lot.
- So these types of compliments don't really faze them a lot.
- So Stoicism is the idea that not necessarily emotionless, but you don't let things faze you.
- And he was just really enjoying it for what it was and didn't let anything else faze him.
- And at your level, you're taking freaking micro losses multiple times a day, but it just doesn't faze you.
- One of my most successful series now is Try Not to Cry, but I feel like I've seen so much now that nothing seems to faze me.
- But when Juan Howard hit fucking buddy, he didn't faze him at all.
- This is nothing masturbating bear will faze me.
- But like, for me, none of that didn't faze you.
- I'll make your eyelids curl back like I have no problem talking about it doesn't faze me at all.
- It's impossible for that money not to affect you and faze you and, and and you see it that that that is and, and you're so dead on.
Examples
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Nothing fazed her, you know?
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So these types of compliments don't really faze them a lot.
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Whether a person gets one or not is not going to faze any of the others.
Blog text (26) -
There were some guys who it didn't seem to faze them that much.
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And it didn't even faze him!
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That crash didn't seem to faze him a bit.
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Nothing would faze them.
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Your threats don't faze me, Hatfield.
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Even the sight of the plane, not exactly a Piper Cub but small enough, didn't faze us.
Fiction book (1992) -
Even the mention of snakes didn't faze me, though I am most decidedly not a snake person.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
To make someone feel afraid or unsure of themselves
Make someone feel slightly upset or annoyed
To make someone feel nervous and less confident
To make someone feel worried or uneasy
To make someone feel worried or uneasy
To make someone nervous so they cannot think clearly
Make someone feel upset and unable to think clearly
To bother or worry someone by causing extra trouble
To frighten or startle someone and make them pull back suddenly
Antonyms
How Disturbed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Faze may come from an old Scottish verb meaning 'to frighten' or 'to disturb'. You can see this idea in the word unfazed — if you are not fazed you stay calm and do not lose confidence.