Haze

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Atmospheric moisture, dust, smoke, and vapor that diminishes visibility.
  • noun. A partially opaque covering.
  • noun. A vague or confused state of mind.
  • intransitive verb. To become misty or hazy; blur.
  • transitive verb. To persecute or harass with meaningless, difficult, or humiliating tasks.
  • transitive verb. To initiate, as into a college fraternity, by exacting humiliating performances from or playing rough practical jokes upon.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To drizzle.
  • To be or become foggy or hazy.
  • noun. The aggregation of a countless multitude of extremely minute and even ultra-microscopic particles in the air, individually invisible, but producing in the aggregate an opaqueness of the atmosphere.
  • To harass with labor; punish with unnecessary work, as a seaman.
  • To play mischievous or abusive tricks on; try the pluck or temper of, especially by physical persecution, as lower-class students in a college or new-comers in an establishment of any kind.
  • To frolic; lark.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A state of confusion, uncertainty, or vagueness of thought or perception.
  • intransitive verb. To be hazy, or thick with haze.
  • transitive verb. To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college or military unit.
  • verb. To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
  • noun. Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility.
  • noun. A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
  • noun. An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
  • noun. Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
  • noun. The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
  • noun. Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions
  • verb. become hazy, dull, or cloudy
  • noun. atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility
  • noun. confusion characterized by lack of clarity
  • Word Usage
    "Bell shrouds in haze the art within the story so the reader interprets, based on their own predispositions, if anyone involved is meant to have real talent."
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    haze over  hazed  hazing  hazy  
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    aerosol  beset  chevvy  chevy  chivvy  
    Rhyme
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    Blaise  Blase  Chevrolets  Hayes  Hays  
    Same Context
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    blur  gleam  gloom  glow  halo  
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    hazed  hazes  hazing