faze

/feɪz/

/feɪz/

Other forms: fazed; fazes; fazing

If nothing can faze you, you are unflappable. Nothing bothers you, or gets you off your game. To faze is to disrupt or disturb.

Faze is a new word, descending from a word that meant to frighten away. At basketball games, when a player is shooting a foul shot, fans behind the net will try to faze the player by waving towels and making loud noise. They are trying to disturb him, so that he misses the kind of shot he's made thousands of times before.

Definitions of faze

1. verb

   disturb the composure of
   synonyms: enervate, unnerve, unsettle

   types:

   unman

   cause to lose one's nerve

   type of:

   discomfit, discompose, disconcert, rattle, untune, upset

   cause to lose one's composure