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Postby gailr » Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:40 pm

FAZE

TRANSITIVE VERB: To disrupt the composure of; disconcert. See synonyms at embarrass.

ETYMOLOGY: Middle English fesen, to drive away, frighten, from Old English fēsian.

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FAZE

1830 Amer.Eng. variant of Kentish dialect feeze "to frighten, alarm, discomfit" (c.1440), from O.E. fesian, fysian "drive away," from P.Gmc. *fausjanan.

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Postby skinem » Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:17 pm

To me--interesting etymology.
Always liked this word--don't know why.

(Skinem--becoming fazed (and faded) by the dog days of a Tennessee summer...)
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