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feeze - What does it mean?

Definition of 'feeze'

English

Noun

  • (obsolete) fretful excitement
  • a race; a run; a running start, as for a leap
  • vexation; worry; fret
  • Verb

  • to drive off; frighten away; put to flight
  • :* {{quote-book |year=1914 |year_published=2009 |edition=HTML |editor= |author=Edgar Rice Burroughs |title=The Mucker |chapter= citation |genre= |publisher=The Gutenberg Project |isbn= |page= |passage=… 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, ... }}
  • to drive; compel; urge
  • to beat; whip; chastise
  • (Beaumont and Fletcher)
  • to vex; worry; harass; plague; tease; disturb
  • to do for; settle or finish
  • to fret; be in a fume; worry
  • to sneeze
  • to untwist; ravel out
  • to dawdle; loiter
  • (Scotland) to screw; twist; tighten by screwing.
  • (Jamieson)

    References

    * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia * (Webster 1913)