haze
/heɪz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.42 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
Uncountable
noun
An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
Uncountable
noun
Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
Uncountable
noun
The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
Uncountable
verb
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.
American usage; Informal
Example Sentences
- "Our hopes, however, soon vanished; for before eight o'clock, the serenity of the sky was changed into a thick haze, accompanied with rain."
- "A blue haze, half dust, half mist, touched the long valley with mystery."
- "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."
- "The soap left a persistent haze on the drinking glasses."
- "The furniture has a haze, possibly from some kind of wax."
- "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?"
Etymology
Usage
- Uncountable
- Countable
- American usage
- Informal
- Transitive verb