From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhazehaze1 /heɪz/ noun [singular, uncountable] 1 DNCLEAR/EASY TO SEE#smoke, dust, or mist in the air which is difficult to see throughhaze of a haze of cigarette smoke The sun was surrounded by a golden haze.2 CONFUSEDthe feeling of being very confused and unable to think clearly a drunken haze
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haze• The family is in a haze of shock and grief.• But by this time the Captain had grown used to living in a blue haze.• Of sand, surf and sea stretching for mile after mile after mile into the blue haze.• Little orange fires flickered, and gray shapes moved among the dull-green helicopters in the morning haze.• In the morning it looks like a smoky haze is hanging over the hills.• During the tight formation take-off his eyes were on Stefan and the Spitfire as they climbed to get on top of the haze.• There was a flash through the haze of dust as Ford knelt to fire the train.• Squinting through the haze, Sam tried to place him.hazehaze2 verb [transitive] American EnglishSECJOKE to play tricks on a new student or to make them do silly or dangerous things, as part of joining the school or a club at the school —hazing noun [uncountable] bizarre hazing rituals → haze over→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
haze• He was the third University of Texas student in nine years to die under suspicions of hazing.• And his meanings were hazed in a golden future.• There was a garden hazed over by sunlight and held in by a dome.• But it was all hazed over in endless mists of blue.• Censers burned, further hazing the air.Origin haze1 (1700-1800) Probably from hazy haze2 (1800-1900) Probably from haze “to frighten, punish” ((17-19 centuries)), from Old French haser 