{"id":39194,"date":"2013-10-13T17:57:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T23:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/13\/english-misuse-pet-peeves-faze.html"},"modified":"2013-10-13T17:57:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T23:57:48","slug":"english-misuse-pet-peeves-faze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/13\/english-misuse-pet-peeves-faze.html","title":{"rendered":"English Misuse Pet Peeves: "faze""},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear English Speakers: \u00a0If you want to talk about a person being disconcerted, daunted, disturbed by something, the word you are looking for is faze,<\/i> not phase.<\/i><\/p>\n

Not even a series of losses at the at the casino could faze<\/b> Ambassador Mollari, as long as there was someone around who would back his latest "system."<\/i><\/p>\n

(Carrying on the long tradition in our household of using B5 to demonstrate vocabulary words.)<\/p><\/div>\n

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the definition of faze<\/a>
\n Faze definition, to cause to be disturbed or disconcerted; daunt: The worst insults cannot faze him. See more.\n <\/p>\n

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\u00a0Dear English Speakers: \u00a0If you want to talk about a person being disconcerted, daunted, disturbed by something, the word you are looking for is faze, not phase. 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