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haze - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Noun

haze (usually uncountable, plural hazes)

• Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
  • ✤ Our hopes, however, soon vanished; for before eight o’clock, the serenity of the sky was changed into a thick haze, accompanied with rain.¹
  • ✤ A blue haze, half dust, half mist, touched the long valley with mystery.²
  • ✤ Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.³
• A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
• An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
  • ✤ The soap left a persistent haze on the drinking glasses.
  • ✤ The furniture has a haze, possibly from some kind of wax.
• (figuratively) Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
  • ✤ And is it that the haze of grief
    ⁠Hath stretch’d my former joy so great?
    ⁠The lowness of the present state,
    That sets the past in this relief?⁴
  • ✤ In my haze of alcohol, I thought for one crazy instant that he had plumbed my secret.⁵
  • ✤ But these tasks are difficult for the recent history of the form, since our perceptions are clouded by the haze of historical proximity.⁶
  • ✤ Because he chose to be “a citizen of somewhere else,” we glimpse him now only “through the haze of memory.”⁷
  • ✤ I’ve spent years in a haze, trying to forget my past. Sakaar seemed like the best place to drink, and to forget… and to die, one day.⁸
• (uncountable, engineering, packaging) The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
  • ✤ * Haze is listed as a percent value and, typically, is about 1% for meat film.*⁹
• (countable, brewing) Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
  • ✤ Various clarifying and fining agents are used in winemaking to remove hazes.¹⁰

Verb

haze (third-person singular simple present hazes, present participle hazing, simple past and past participle hazed)

• To be or become hazy, or thick with haze.
  • ✤ Pyramids of clouds now fringed its edge, and the centre had hazed into a sandy mist.¹¹

Verb

haze (third-person singular simple present hazes, present participle hazing, simple past and past participle hazed)

• (US, informal) To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting person, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college fraternity or military unit.
• To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
  • ✤ […] when the young man whirled his horse, “hazed” Jupiter in circles and belaboured him with a rawhide quirt, […] He ceased his cavortings […]¹²
• (transitive) In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.
• (transitive) To use aversive stimuli on (a wild animal, such as a bear) to encourage it to keep its distance from humans.
  • ✤ * Hazing a bear involves creating a “negative experience for a bear that seeks out human food or loses its natural avoidance of humans and developed areas,” the release said. That involves using non-lethal rubber shotgun slugs, or rubber rounds and noise-deterrent rounds in sequence to scare bears away, according to the release.*¹³

Pronunciation

• enPR: hāz, IPA: /heɪz/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊
• Rhymes: -eɪz
• Homophones: hays, heys (pane–pain merger)

Etymology 1

• The earliest instances are of the latter part of the 17th century.
• Possibly back-formation from hazy.
• Compare Old Norse höss (“grey”), akin to Old English hasu (“gray”).¹⁴

Etymology 2

Possibly from hawze (“terrify, frighten, confound”), from Middle French haser (“irritate, annoy”)

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 1772 December, James Cook, chapter 2, in A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Around the World, volume 1: ↩

2. 1895, H.G. Wells, The Cone: ↩

3. 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29: ↩

4. 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXIV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 41: ↩

5. 1957, Daphne du Maurier, The Scapegoat ‎${}^{[1]}$, →ISBN, page 218: ↩

6. 1994, Michael Thomas Roeder, A History of the Concerto, page 312: ↩

7. 2005, Dane Anthony Morrison, Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Salem: Place, Myth, and Memory, page 179: ↩

8. 2017, Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost, directed by Taika Waititi, Thor: Ragnarok, spoken by Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson): ↩

9. 1998, Leonard I. Nass, Charles A. Heiberger, Encyclopedia of PVC ‎${}^{[2]}$, →ISBN, page 318: ↩

10. 1985, Philip Jackisch, Modern Winemaking ‎${}^{[3]}$, →ISBN, page 69: ↩

11. 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 268: ↩

12. 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter I, in The Understanding Heart: ↩

13. 2016 July 18, Annie Zak, “Brown bear seriously injured in ‘hazing’ attempt in Southeast Alaska”, in Anchorage Daily News: ↩

14. “haze”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. ↩

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