different between feaze vs faze

English

Etymology

From Middle English fesen (“to drive, incite, put into action; frighten, terrify, prosecute, punish”), from Old English f?san, f?san (“to hasten, impel”), from Proto-Germanic *funsijan? (“to make ready”).

Verb

feaze (third-person singular simple present feazes, present participle feazing, simple past and past participle feazed)

1. Alternative form of fease
2. Alternative form of faze

   There's mighty little that feazes you.

References

Anagrams

• ezafe, ez?fe

English

Alternative forms

• phase (see notes)

Etymology

From English dialectal (Kentish) feeze, feese (“to alarm, discomfit, frighten”), from Middle English f?sen (“to chase, drive away; put to flight; discomfit, frighten, terrify”), from Old English f?san, f?san (“to send forth; to hasten, impel, stimulate; to banish, drive away, put to flight; to prepare oneself”), from Proto-Germanic *funsijan? (“to predispose, make favourable; to make ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go; to walk”). The word is cognate with Old Norse fýsa (“to drive, goad; to admonish”), Old Saxon f?sian (“to strive”).

Citations for faze in the Oxford English Dictionary start in 1830, and usage was established by 1890.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: f?z, IPA^(key): /fe?z/
• Homophone: phase
• Rhymes: -e?z

Verb

faze (third-person singular simple present fazes, present participle fazing, simple past and past participle fazed)

1. (transitive, informal) To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. [from mid 19th c.]

Usage notes

The spelling phase is sometimes used for faze; including by such notables as Mark Twain and The New York Times.

Alternative forms

• feaze

Derived terms

• unfazed

Translations

References

Kabuverdianu

Verb

faze

1. do, make

Etymology

From Portuguese fazer.

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, ?ISBN

Portuguese

Verb

faze

1. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of fazer

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?faze]

Noun

faze f

1. indefinite plural of faz?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of faz?