English

Noun

feeze ‎(plural feezes)

1. (obsolete) fretful excitement
2. a race; a run; a running start, as for a leap
3. vexation; worry; fret

Verb

feeze ‎(third-person singular simple present feezes, present participle feezing, simple past and past participle feezed)

1. to drive off; frighten away; put to flight

   • 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:

     … 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, ...

2. to drive; compel; urge
3. to beat; whip; chastise

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4. to vex; worry; harass; plague; tease; disturb
5. to do for; settle or finish
6. to fret; be in a fume; worry
7. to sneeze
8. to untwist; ravel out
9. to dawdle; loiter
10. (Scotland) to ****; twist; tighten by screwing.

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Related terms

• faze
• feaze

References

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia