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Falter vs Faze - What's the difference?

falter | faze |

As a noun falter

is butterfly.

As a verb faze is

(fazer).

falter

English

Noun

(-)
  • unsteadiness.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To waver or be unsteady.
  • * Wiseman
    • He found his legs falter .
  • (ambitransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
  • * Byron
    • And here he faltered forth his last farewell.
  • * Milton
    • With faltering speech and visage incomposed.
  • To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
  • * I. Taylor
    • Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters .
  • To stumble.
  • (figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
  • *
    • And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter .
  • To hesitate in purpose or action.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Ere her native king / Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.
  • To cleanse or sift, as barley.
    • (Halliwell)

    References

    faze

    English

    Alternative forms

    * feaze

    Verb

    (faz)
  • (informal) To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative), to perturb, to disconcert.
    • Jumping out of an airplane does not faze him, yet he is afraid to ride a roller coaster.

    Usage notes

    * Citations for in the start in 1830; usage was established by 1890. * The word phase is sometimes used incorrectly for ; they are distinct terms.

    Related terms

    * (l)

    References