faze
/feɪz
/verb [with object] informal
Disturb or disconcert (someone): she was not fazed by his show of anger...
- The way the Portuguese starlet is going, you cannot imagine anything fazing him.
- The trick is that Juan graduated from a hard school and nothing fazes him.
- But nothing fazes Richard, so he'll be up for it.
Usage
Faze has no connection with the word phase and should not be spelled with a ph-, although this is a common error: almost a quarter of citations for the word in the Oxford English Corpus are for the incorrect spelling.
Origin
Mid 19th century (originally US): variant of dialect feeze 'drive or frighten off', from Old English fēsian, of unknown origin.
This informal word meaning ‘disturb, disconcert’ was originally US, a variant of dialect feeze ‘drive or frighten off’, from Old English fēsian.