faze

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: fāz
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /feɪz/
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• Australian: /fæɪz/
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• homophone: phase
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• rhymes with -eɪz
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• CMU ARPABET: F EY1 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From English dialectal (Kentish) feeze, feese (“to alarm, discomfit, frighten”), from Middle English fēsen (“to chase, drive away; put to flight; discomfit, frighten, terrify”), from Old English fēsan, fȳsan (“to send forth; to hasten, impel, stimulate; to banish, drive away, put to flight; to prepare oneself”), from Proto-West Germanic *funsijan, from Proto-Germanic *funsijaną (“to predispose, make favourable; to make ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go; to walk”). The word is cognate with Old Saxon fūsian (“to strive”), Old Norse fýsa (“to drive, goad; to admonish”). Citations for faze in the Oxford English Dictionary start in 1830, and usage was established by 1890.

24 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: плаша (plaša) — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• Bulgarian: смуща́вам (smuštávam) — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• Bulgarian: смутя́ (smutjá) — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• Chinese Mandarin: 使担忧 — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• Czech: vyvést z míry — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• Czech: rozhodit — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• Czech: vykolejit — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• Danish: skræmme — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• Dutch: afschrikken — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• Finnish: pelottaa — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• Finnish: hätkähdyttää — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• French: effrayer — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• German: aus der Fassung bringen — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• German: in Unruhe versetzen — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• German: abschrecken — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• German: schrecken — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• Māori: whakahārangi — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• Polish: zbić z tropu — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• Polish: wyprowadzić z równowagi — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• Portuguese: amedrontar — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• Spanish: inmutar — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• Swedish: besvära — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• Swedish: bringa ur fattning — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
• Swedish: skrämma — to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb