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[syn: daze, fog, haze]
VERB (2)
1. become hazy, dull, or cloudy;
2. harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Haze \Haze\, v. i.
To be hazy, or thick with haze. --Ray.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Haze \Haze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hazed (h[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb.
n. Hazing.] [Also hase.] [Cf. Sw. haza to hamstring, fr.
has hough, OD. h[ae]ssen ham.]
1. To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or
difficult work.
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2. 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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Haze \Haze\ (h[=a]z), n. [Cf. Icel. h["o]ss gray; akin to AS.
hasu, heasu, gray; or Armor. a['e]zen, ['e]zen, warm vapor,
exhalation, zephyr.]
1. 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.
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O'er the sky
The silvery haze of summer drawn. --Tennyson.
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Above the world's uncertain haze. --Keble.
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2. A state of confusion, uncertainty, or vagueness of thought
or perception; as, after the explosion, people were
wandering around in a haze.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
haze
n 1: atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced
visibility
2: confusion characterized by lack of clarity [syn: daze,
fog, haze]
v 1: become hazy, dull, or cloudy
2: harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in
military institutions
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "haze":
London fog, London special, absentmindedness, abstraction, banter,
becloud, befog, befuddlement, bemist, bemusement, bewilderment,
bother, botheration, chaff, chaos, clabber up, cloud, cloud over,
cloud up, cloudiness, confusion, darken, darken over, daze, dim,
discombobulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion,
disorder, disorganization, disorientation, disturbance, dream,
drisk, drizzling mist, embarrassment, encloud, enmist, film,
flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, frenzy, frost smoke,
fuddle, fuddlement, gauze, jape, jest, jive, joke, jolly, josh,
jumble, kid, maze, mess, mist, mistiness, muddle, muddleheadedness,
muddlement, murk, murkiness, needle, nubilate, obnubilate, obscure,
overcast, overcloud, overshadow, oversmoke, pea soup, pea-soup fog,
peasouper, perplexity, perturbation, pother, preoccupation, pucker,
put on, rag, rally, razz, reverie, rib, ride, roast, ruffle, shade,
shadow, shuffle, smog, smoke, smokiness, stew, stupor, sweat,
swivet, tease, tizzy, trance, twit, unsettlement, upset, vapor,
woolgathering
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Haze
An X Window System window manager designed to
be light-weight and look like MacOS. Haze is based on
mlvwm. It support virtual desktops, configurable menu
bar and shaded windows.
Haze home (http://www.escomposlinux.org/jes/description.html).
(2010-05-03)