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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To disrupt the composure of; disconcert. See Synonyms at embarrass.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To disturb; ruffle; daunt.

Wiktionary

  1. v. informal To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative), to perturb, to disconcert.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To cause to become disconcerted or disturbed. A variant form of feeze.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. disturb the composure of

Etymologies

  1. From English dialectal (Kentish) feeze, feese ("to frighten, alarm, discomfit"), from Middle English fesen ("to drive away, frighten away, put to flight"), from Old English fēsan, fȳsan ("to send forth, impel, stimulate, drive away, put into flight, banish, hasten, prepare oneself"), from Proto-Germanic *funsijanan (“to predispose, make favourable, make ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to walk, go”). Cognate with Old Saxon fūsian ("to strive"), Old Norse fýsa ("to drive, goad, admonish"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English fesen, to drive away, frighten, from Old English fēsian. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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