Definition of "feeze" in Anglais

noun

1. (now dialect and US) A state of worry or alarm.

2. (now dialect and US, also fetch one's feeze) A rush, impetus, or a violent impact; also, a rub.

3. (obsolete, Scotland) A device for wedging items into a tight space.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete, often with about, also feeze away) To drive off or away; to make (someone) run, put to flight; to frighten away; compare faze.

2. (transitive) To beat; to chastise.

   • He had not been squelched. he had not been feased by the feigned rebuke of the Hon. John Masterson McInnery.

3. (transitive, intransitive) To cause to swing about.

4. (intransitive) To frighten, put into a state of alarm.

verb

1. (transitive, also with off, on, up) To twist or turn with a screw-like motion; to screw.

2. (figurative, by extension) To insinuate.

3. (transitive, intransitive) To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a thread or rope.

4. (obsolete, transitive, figurative, with at or up) To rub hard; to do a piece of work with passion.

verb

1. Pronunciation spelling of freeze.