To cause someone to feel afraid, upset, or uncertain: Patricia was told that she would never succeed as a writer if she let criticism faze her.

David’s teacher told his English class that the verb faze had several negative meanings; for example: disconcert, fret, disturb, perturb, worry, upset, etc.

A common error that some people make is to spell faze as "phase" and so everyone should be aware that these terms have completely different meanings!

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