HAZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does haze mean? 

• HAZE (noun)
  The noun HAZE has 2 senses:

1. atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility

2. confusion characterized by lack of clarity

  Familiarity information: HAZE used as a noun is rare.

• HAZE (verb)
  The verb HAZE has 2 senses:

1. become hazy, dull, or cloudy

2. harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions

  Familiarity information: HAZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAZE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("haze" is a kind of...):

aerosol (a cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas)

Derivation:

haze (become hazy, dull, or cloudy)

hazy (filled or abounding with fog or mist)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Confusion characterized by lack of clarity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

daze; fog; haze

Hypernyms ("haze" is a kind of...):

confusedness; confusion; disarray; mental confusion; muddiness (a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior)

Derivation:

hazy (indistinct or hazy in outline)

• HAZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they haze    ... he / she / it hazes   
Past simple: hazed   
Past participle: hazed   
-ing form: hazing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become hazy, dull, or cloudy

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Hypernyms (to "haze" is one way to...):

cloud; overcast (make overcast or cloudy)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

haze (atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "haze" is one way to...):

beset; chevvy; chevy; chivvy; chivy; harass; harry; hassle; molest; plague; provoke (annoy continually or chronically)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

With Titan as their example, Robinson and colleagues found that hazes high above some transiting exoplanets might strictly limit what their spectra can reveal to planet transit observers.

(Sunsets on Titan reveal the complexity of hazy exoplanets, NASA)

Yes; with the right eye I see a glow—a ruddy haze.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Previous Hubble observations of the day/night boundary detected evidence of water vapor and possibly clouds and hazes in the atmosphere.

(Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet, NASA)

The influx of water from the rings, appearing at specific latitudes, washed away the stratospheric haze, making it appear dark in reflected light, producing the narrow dark bands.

(Saturn is Losing Its Rings, NASA)

With this approach, the team was able to classify a previously unidentified material discovered by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in the moon’s smoggy haze.

(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)

The atmospheric haze blocking sunlight, called "tau," is now above 8.0 at Gale Crater — the highest tau the mission has ever recorded.

(Martian Dust Storm Grows Global: Curiosity Captures Photos of Thickening Haze, NASA)

Mission scientists have discovered that the layers of haze in Pluto’s nitrogen atmosphere vary in brightness depending on illumination and viewpoint, yet the haze itself maintains its overall vertical structure.

(Pluto’s Haze Varies in Brightness, NASA)

“I'll be hanged if I'll be hazed by you, John Silver.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The seaman shaded his eyes with his hand, and gazed earnestly through the haze and spray.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were hard and uncouth, some of them, I doubt not; and yet, seen through the golden haze of time, they all seem sweet and lovable.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)