haze
verb/heɪz/
/heɪz/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they haze | /heɪz/ /heɪz/ |
| he / she / it hazes | /ˈheɪzɪz/ /ˈheɪzɪz/ |
| past simple hazed | /heɪzd/ /heɪzd/ |
| past participle hazed | /heɪzd/ /heɪzd/ |
| -ing form hazing | /ˈheɪzɪŋ/ /ˈheɪzɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] haze (something) to become covered or to cover something in a haze
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- [transitive] haze somebody (North American English) to play tricks on somebody, especially a new student or somebody who has just joined the army, or to give them very unpleasant things to do, sometimes as a condition for entering a fraternity or sorority
- Rookies were mercilessly hazed.
Word Originverb sense 1 early 18th cent. (originally denoting fog or hoar frost): probably a back-formation from hazy. verb sense 2 late 17th cent. (originally Scots and dialect in the sense ‘frighten, scold, or beat’): perhaps related to obsolete French haser ‘tease or insult’.
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