faze

faze
/fayz/, v.t., fazed, fazing.
to cause to be disturbed or disconcerted; daunt: The worst insults cannot faze him.
[1820-30, Amer.; dial form. of FEEZE]
Syn. disconcert, discomfit, perturb, fluster, confound.

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