What's the difference between faze and frighten?

Faze


Definition:

  • (v. t.) See Feeze.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If Shelley Kerr is the slightest bit fazed by her new appointment, as the first woman to manage a senior men’s team in Britain, she does not let on.
  • (2) They release reports ahead of major conferences and Kimberley plenary sessions but we are not fazed at all."
  • (3) Norman added that it did not faze him that he was not the first choice for the role and pledged to spend as many hours at the broadcaster as was necessary to get the business back on track.
  • (4) "He has come into this environment and is not fazed and is looking forward to the game."
  • (5) We know we’ve got a lot of ability so there’s no point being afraid of teams.” Hodgson must certainly be aware that Vardy will not be fazed in the slightest should he be brought into the starting lineup for Monday’s game against Slovakia.
  • (6) So we are talking about a process which, despite the best efforts of judges and the special advocates who represent the claimant in a closed material procedure, may militate against truth, and that is something everyone should take seriously, even the power-fazed Lib Dems.
  • (7) Aside from being a top player, one who commands respect within the group, Wayne is passionate about representing his country and won’t be fazed by the responsibility.” “Before a game, he is one of the most vocal players in the dressing room.
  • (8) Get good at busking and later, when you're playing the Pyramid stage, you know you won't be fazed.
  • (9) Rashford was still some way behind Bill Nicholson’s record, set in 1951, for scoring 19 seconds into his England debut but, more importantly, the new kid on the block confirmed he is not fazed easily.
  • (10) But not having a bike doesn’t appear to faze Uber: with the swipe of a finger I turn from “Uber Bicycle” to “Uber Walker”, and with jobs like Nicholas’s begins the slow attempt to earn enough money to buy a new bike.
  • (11) Initially at least it certainly succeeded in fazing a France team deployed in characteristic 4-4-2 guise.
  • (12) There have been times when the requirement for a draw would not have fazed Italians.
  • (13) The downsides are the cold in winter and having to empty the toilet every few weeks, but these haven't fazed her.
  • (14) Her DC Rachel Bailey, in Scott & Bailey , isn't fazed by the contents of a dead body's anal swab, a dodgy ex who tries to have her killed, or even her permanent hangover.
  • (15) García told the Guardian that poll didn’t faze him.
  • (16) Kokkinos says the first time he performed in America he was quite fazed by the fact that people started laughing during moments he considered painful.
  • (17) Fincher, baby-faced over breakfast tea in London, isn't fazed.
  • (18) If the arrival of an attacking partner galvanised Jonathan Walters, confrontation by 4-4-2 fazed Newcastle.
  • (19) The topsy-turvy idea of immigrants being made to respect supposedly British values, such as free speech, while being excluded from these themselves did not seem to faze Mr Woolas at all.
  • (20) He has already shared stories with me of growing up in care and moving between London and his family in Wolverhampton, so I'm confident these new surroundings don't faze him.

Frighten


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
  • (2) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (3) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
  • (4) Subjective measures of anxiety, frightening cognitions and body sensations were obtained across the phases.
  • (5) There is no support in the system and it’s a very frightening and distressing situation to be in.
  • (6) "The problem in the community is that the elderly who live on their own on ground floors are frightened to open the windows because of vandalism and burglary," he says.
  • (7) You say that she taught you not to feel frightened.
  • (8) The facts speak for themselves but it was Mayweather’s refusal to address the allegations that was particularly frightening.
  • (9) Despite the warnings, new protesters of all ages continued to arrive in the camp, insisting they would not be frightened away.
  • (10) "I heard five explosions during the protest this evening and I was frightened - I just wanted to get out of there.
  • (11) I briefly consider logging into a relative’s AOL account and entering the keywords “the sadness of constantly frightened old white people”, but that seems too general.
  • (12) Regardless of fringe rucks, these protests are more likely to lay the ground for wider public and industrial campaigns than frighten them off.
  • (13) Ukraine frightened people here,” says one diplomatic source in Minsk.
  • (14) This is the most frightening picture you will ever see.
  • (15) Actually, I had betrayed the seriousness of what had happened, because my story ignored the fact that I had been genuinely frightened and in a degree of danger during the heckling.
  • (16) Narcolepsy, with its specific symptomatology is an intriguing but often frightening disease.
  • (17) The comedian Stephen Mangan called Cameron’s warning “panicky” and “daft”, while another comedian, Vikki Stone, shared a picture of herself hiding in the shed with a colander on her head and said: “Dear David Cameron I’m frightened.
  • (18) Of those who did not read the notes, only four (17%) were frightened by what they might read, while others stated that they did not have their glasses, could not read, did not think it was their place, thought the notes would not be interesting, or did not understand the policy.
  • (19) Sonia Zambakides, head of Save the Children's Somalia emergency response, added: "While there has been an improvement in these areas thanks to the international aid effort, children are still dying at a frightening rate across Somalia.
  • (20) The reality of the plan you went along with and helped execute was that your children were to be frightened out of sleep in the middle of the night and rescued by their father from a fire that should never have been started.