'Haze' definitions:
Definition of 'haze'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Haze'
From: GCIDE
- Haze \Haze\, v. i. To be hazy, or thick with haze. --Ray. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Haze'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Haze'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- O'er the sky The silvery haze of summer drawn. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- Above the world's uncertain haze. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A state of confusion, uncertainty, or vagueness of thought or perception; as, after the explosion, people were wandering around in a haze. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'haze'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- London fog,
- London special,
- 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