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Is feeze a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word feeze is a Scrabble US word. The word feeze is worth 17 points in Scrabble:

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Is feeze a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word feeze is a Scrabble UK word and has 17 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

FEEZE,

3-letter words (3 found)

FEE,FEZ,ZEE,

2-letter words (4 found)

EE,EF,FE,ZE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 9 words from feeze according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of feeze

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Definitions and meaning of feeze

feeze

Alternative forms

  • fease, feaze, feese
  • pheese, pheeze, phese
  • vease, veeze (West Country)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fiːz/
  • Rhymes: -iːz
  • Homophone: fees

Etymology 1

From Middle English fese, from the verb (see below).

Noun

feeze (plural feezes)

  1. (obsolete or US, dialectal) A state of fretful excitement or worry.
  2. (obsolete) A rush, impetus, or violent movement.
  3. (obsolete) A running start or run-up, as for a leap; used in the expression "to fetch one's feeze".
  4. (obsolete, Scotland) A device for wedging items into a tight space.

Etymology 2

From Middle English fesen, from Old English fēsian, fȳsian (“to drive away, put to flight”), variants of fēsan, fȳsan (“to hasten, rush; to incite, stimulate, send forth, drive away”), of disputed origin. Doublet of faze.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To drive off, frighten away, or cause to flee or hesitate; to faze.
  2. (transitive) To beat.
  3. (transitive) To humble; harass; subdue.
    • 1916 February, Jim Blythe, "The Corn-Cob Club", Public Service Magazine 20, H. J. Gonden, Chicago, page 48:
      He had not been squelched. he had not been feased by the feigned rebuke of the Hon. John Masterson McInnery.
  4. (transitive, intransitive) To swing about or flare (as a candle).
  5. (intransitive) To defeat, settle or finish.
  6. (intransitive) To fret; be in a fume; worry.
  7. (intransitive) To hurry; to move in an agitated manner.
Usage notes

Over time, this verb largely fell out of use in Standard English and survived only in dialect, from which it re-entered the standard lexicon in the 19th century as faze (in a much more limited sense).

Related terms
  • faze

Etymology 3

From Scots feeze, from Old Scots fize (“screw”, noun), from Dutch vijs (“screw”), from Middle Dutch vise (“screw, windlass, winch”), from Old French vis, viz (“vise, vice”), from Latin vītis (“vine”). Doublet of vice, vise, and withe.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, Scotland) To screw; twist; tighten or loosen by screwing.
  2. (transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a rope.

Etymology 4

Verb

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

  1. (pronunciation spelling) To freeze.

References

  • Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “FEASE, v.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes II (D–G), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 316.
  • Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “FEEZE, v.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes II (D–G), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 324.
  • “feeze”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “feeze”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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