Haze

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
    

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