faze

Betekenis (English)

To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb.

Concepten

afschrikken

Synonyms

bother

trouble

unnerve

unsettle

vex

disturb

worry

embarrass

enervate

fluster

frustrate

gall

harass

harry

interfere

interrupt

intimidate

intrude

jam

molest

overawe

perturb

pinch

put off

put out

straiten

weary

😩

barge in

abash

intrude on

annoy

bug

🐛

chagrin

commove

cow

🐮

daunt

disconcert

disorder

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/feɪz/

Etymologie (English)

Inherited from Middelengels: fēsen

Inherited from Oudengels: fēsan

Cognate with Old Saxon: fūsian

Cognate with Oudnoors: fýsa

In summary

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.