Fazed

Fazed is the past participle of the verb faze, meaning to disturb, disconcert, or trouble someone. In everyday use, faze functions as a regular verb in sentences such as "The sudden question did not faze her." The adjective unfazed denotes not perturbed or bothered by something, as in "She remained unfazed by the criticism." The form fazed can describe something that caused disturbance, for example "The loud crash fazed him."

Fazed is sometimes confused with other similarly spelled words. Phased, pronounced the same in many dialects, is the past tense of phase and means something that occurs in stages or is introduced gradually. FaZe (with a capital Z) is a stylized proper noun used by an international esports organization; it is unrelated to the verb meaning of faze, though the two are commonly conflated in casual use.

Origin and usage notes: the origins of faze are uncertain, but the verb has been part of English for several centuries. In modern English, faze is more commonly used in the negative form unfazed, rather than the positive "fazed" in most everyday contexts.