faze

Meaning

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

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/feɪz/

Etymology

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.