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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'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Haze" Quotes from Famous Books

... pause following Roberts lit one of the seemingly inexhaustible black cigars, after proffering its mate. Again the two sat there, the blue haze of mutual ...

— The Dominant Dollar • Will Lillibridge

... were pursuing the proper course, their countenances assuming an expression of the most perfect ignorance and apathy. Still we pushed on, the Spaniards trying to urge their horses still faster through the heavy sand. Before us rose a bright glittering haze, through which objects every now and then appeared seemingly in the far distance—hills, and trees, and rocks, and lakes, and streams of pure water; but as we advanced they vanished, and a few barren mounds and loose stones alone ...

— Manco, the Peruvian Chief - An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas • W.H.G. Kingston

... what subsequently appeared to have been a purely psychic breakdown or relapse, not physical, but one which left me in no mood or condition to go on with my work, or any work indeed in any form. Hope had disappeared in a sad haze. I could apparently succeed in nothing, do nothing mentally that was worth while. At the same time I had all but retired from the world, living on less and less until finally I had descended into those depths where I was in the grip of actual ...

— Twelve Men • Theodore Dreiser

... were draped and folded in the opal haze of distance; the sky was perfect turquoise; the rounded kopjes shone like pink topaz, unclothed as yet with the young pale green bush. To the south there was a veld fire leaping and dancing, with swirling columns of white smoke edged with flame. But it ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... a joy to be out of doors under such a sky. The intense, repressing greens of summer were now subdued and shaded. The air was subtle and fragrant. Amber rays shone through the boughs. The hills were clothed in purple. An exquisite, impalpable haze idealized all nature. Right and left the reapers swept their sharp sickles through the ripe wheat. The women went after them, binding the sheaves, and singing among the yellow swaths shrill, wild songs, full ...

— The Squire of Sandal-Side - A Pastoral Romance • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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