Fazed vs Faked - What's the difference?
fazed | faked |
(faze)
(informal) To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative), to perturb, to disconcert.
(fake)
Not real; false, fraudulent.
Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
A trick; a swindle.
(soccer) Move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage when dribbling an opponent.
To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
To make; to construct; to do. (rfexample)
To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.
To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
(nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
(nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.
As verbs the difference between fazed and faked
is that fazed is (faze) while faked is (fake).fazed
English
Verb
(head)faze
English
Alternative forms
* feazeVerb
(faz)- 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.References
faked
English
Verb
(head)fake
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia fake) The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775Adjective
(en-adj)- Which fur coat looks fake ?