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noun

Haze n.

Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness. "O'er the sky The silvery haze of summer drawn." "Above the world's uncertain haze."

A state of confusion, uncertainty, or vagueness of thought or perception; as, after the explosion, people were wandering around in a haze.

verb

Haze v. t. (past & past part. hazed; pres. part. hazing) (Also hase)

To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work.

To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; used esp. of college students, as an initiation rite into a fraternity or other group; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman.

Haze v. i. To be hazy, or thick with haze.

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Etymology of 'Haze'

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"Haze" Quotes from Famous Books

... to do all in our power to keep the world cheerful. If there is a youth of our acquaintance who despairs of ever raising a fine moustache, we would remind him of that comforting apothegm of the Spanish: "Un cabello haze sombra"—"The least hair makes a shadow." Courage, lad! and do not cast that shadow from thy lip. If there is a single hair already there, it is a ...

— Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 33, November 12, 1870 • Various

... light haze of evening I saw a strip of the straight white road leading eastward across the level land. At the beginning of it there was a broken bridge; in places it seemed torn up by shells; it disappeared in the violet dusk. But as ...

— The Valley of Vision • Henry Van Dyke

... worse than yours. I don't think we've much altered in anything. Let's see, though." He looked at Maisie critically. The pale blue haze of an autumn day crept between the tree-trunks of the Park and made a background for the gray dress, the black velvet toque above the black hair, and ...

— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

... to pipe to breakfast; and taking his deck glass went lightly up to the foretop-gallant-mast-crosstrees. Thence, through the light haze of a glorious morning, he espied a long low schooner, lateen-rigged, lying close under Point Leat, a small island about nine miles distant on the weather bow; and nearly in the Agra's course then approaching the Straits of Gaspar, ...

— Great Sea Stories • Various

... constantly getting up and stopping me, whatever I wanted to do, when I felt myself laid hold of by the leg, dragged under water, and a moment after landed safe on the bank. Almost the same moment I heard a plunge, and getting up, staggering and bewildered, saw, as through the haze of a dream, a boy swimming after the boat, which had gone down with the slow current. I saw him overtake it, scramble into it in midstream, and handle the oars as to the manner born. When he had brought it back to the spot where ...

— Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood • George MacDonald

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