Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A race; a run; a running start, as for a leap.
  • noun Vexation; worry; fret.
  • To sneeze.
  • To drive off; frighten away; put to flight.
  • To drive; compel; urge.
  • To beat; whip; chastise.
  • To vex; worry; harass; plague; tease; disturb.
  • To do for; settle or finish.
  • To fret; be in a fume; worry: as, she frets and feezes.
  • To untwist the end of (anything made of threads or fibers); ravel out.
  • To untwist; ravel out.
  • To dawdle; loiter.
  • To screw; twist; tighten by screwing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb Scot To turn, as a screw.
  • transitive verb obsolete To beat; to chastise; to humble; to worry.
  • transitive verb [Obs.] to work into a passion.
  • noun Fretful excitement. [Obs.] See feaze.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete fretful excitement
  • noun a race; a run; a running start, as for a leap
  • noun vexation; worry; fret
  • verb to drive off; frighten away; put to flight

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old English fēsian ("to drive away, put to flight")

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Examples

  • Either it means the debate ratings are creeping up, or its unusually dismal Saturday night programming for CBS.CBS News is live streaming the debate right here for those you without benefit of a telly or US geographical location.7.15pm ET: So after his brain feeze last time, Rick Perry is putting in more preparation, right?

    GOP presidential debate in South Carolina - as it happened 2011

  • Stand back 20 yds false cast let it settle damn fly never gets in the hole, .. line ices up fingers feeze nevr cath any perch,. .evrything goes wrong.

    Suburban Winter Blues 2008

  • Im right on the everge of cranky and I shouldnt be cranky. winter is moving toward the big feeze (lock up) in the midwest and I dont wanna ice fish. unless they pass a law allowing minor explosive devices.

    A Brief History of Wildcatting 2008

  • Mos of us get teh brane feeze wen we sees teh “No Comment.”

    NOM NOM NOM NOM! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

  • According to St. Basil, forty soldiers who had openly confessed themselves Christians were condemned by the prefect to be exposed naked upon a frozen pond near Sebaste on a bitterly cold night, that they might feeze to death.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • Battling Dago Pete landed a few more before the fight was over, but as any old fighter will tell you there is nothing more discouraging than to discover that your most effective blows do not feeze your opponent, and only the knowledge of what

    The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • The first time, it's all right, but the second time, AsdkHlrEngine:: run (..) function fails and feeze acad.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

  • The first time, it's all right, but the second time, AsdkHlrEngine:: run (..) function fails and feeze acad.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

  • The first time, it's all right, but the second time, AsdkHlrEngine:: run (..) function fails and feeze acad.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

  • The first time, it's all right, but the second time, AsdkHlrEngine:: run (..) function fails and feeze acad.

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