(n.) 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.
(v. i.) To be hazy, or tick with haze.
(v. t.) To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work.
(v. t.) To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; -- used esp. of college students; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the colony administration, controlled hazing is a convenient method for forcing prisoners into total submission to their systemic abuse of human rights.
(2) It doesn't always go to plan – a Skype interview was conducted with the bottom half of Angel Haze's face – but y'know, that's live TV and technology for you.
(3) Every day, about 500 trucks cross the border, kicking up a beige haze of dust.
(4) On the frayed, far south-western outskirts of Bogotá, the largest, poorest and most violent barrio in the Colombian capital stretches into the haze up the mountainside as far as the eye can see.
(5) Haze's new album (a follow-up to 2012's reputation-establishing Reservation ) is titled Dirty Gold .
(6) A 16-year-old caucasian female with Type VI Ehlers-Danlos syndrome had five unusual corneal findings, four of which have not been reported in association with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: micro-cornea (previously reported), cornea plana, keratoconus posticus, stromal haze at the level of Bowman's layer and a peripheral ring opacity suggestive of anterior embryotoxon.
(7) Manager Mike Scioscia may have one-time slugger Josh Hamilton back in time for the postseason, should he heal from rib inflammation ( if they even need him ); same goes for starting pitcher Matt Shoemaker, who has carried the team down the stretch and is recovering from a mild left rib-cage strain , not to mention his rookie hazing role as a Saudi oil tycoon.
(8) Slit-lamp biomicroscopy disclosed localized thinning with stromal haze underlying the endothelium in the central cornea.
(9) The concentration of radon-222 in air was measured during a flight from Miami to Barbados to Dakar and return; concentrations ranged from 1 to 55 picocuries per standard cubic meter of air and were highest in areas of dense haze, which were present along most of the flight path across the Atlantic Ocean.
(10) There's a sense of generations passing in a haze of crisp formalities, with decades of unexpressed emotions left to accumulate, like dust on a snoozing duchess.
(11) A dense subepithelial haze was observed in the 5 eyes.
(12) The experimental results were consistent with observations on natural infections and indicate that the direct life cycle of H. haze may involve invertebrates as transport hosts.
(13) A fter a week in Kolkata , blessed with mellow sunsets created by the yellowy haze that hung over the city, I flew back to Britain via Delhi on Friday.
(14) Haze was progressively reduced over 1 month, but it could be still discerned biomicroscopically.
(15) It was shown experimentally that H. haze develops to the second stage in the egg and does not hatch spontaneously.
(16) He was joined by other Singaporeans who voted in a thick haze, the result of forest fires in nearby Indonesia.
(17) The results indicate that following ablation with an ultraviolet laser in both humans and primates, the ablated tissue shows a normal healing reaction resulting in a mild to moderate stromal interface haze.
(18) In most patients the haze persisted for two years after gel treatment was discontinued; the haze disappeared in two patients.
(19) In April 1997 the haze of uncertainty about Labour had long been dispelled.
(20) Behrooz Mohammadi, a 35-year-old computer engineer, told the Guardian that the haze in Tehran was so bad this week that even the Milad Tower, the sixth tallest in the world, was not visible from close by.
Hazy
Definition:
(n.) Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent.
(n.) Obscure; confused; not clear; as, a hazy argument; a hazy intellect.
Example Sentences:
(1) The distinction between state and private business has become increasingly hazy.
(2) Heterotypic staining, consisting of a diffused hazy fluorescence, was observed only at the highest concentrations of conjugate and not above the 1:10 dilution.
(3) Major parenchymal features seen at CT included thickened intralobular and interlobular lines, subpleural curvilinear lines, pleural-based nodular irregularities, hazy patches of increased attenuation, small cystic spaces, and small areas of low attenuation.
(4) I just thought it was a little beyond me this year.” On those hazy days in London Ennis-Hill had blown away the opposition with a nerveless and spectacularly quick hurdles on the opening morning of competition that left her cruising to victory.
(5) When applied the method usually yielded results close to the DIP method and due to its high sensitivity AS determinations in very dilute and hazy solutions are possible.
(6) On a clear day you can see the Timahoe round tower to the south, the Wicklow mountains to the east and the Slieve Bloom mountains to the west, but even when the skies are hazy, the views are majestic.
(7) The basement membrane zone becomes broader and hazy, later undergoing disintegration and destruction, concomitant with swelling and homogenization of the reticular distribution of fibronectin in the papillary dermis.
(8) Serially obtained synovial fluid specimens were yellow and clear or hazy and had good mucinous precipitate quality at all times in all horses, except 2, in which the catheter required readjustment.
(9) In freshly plated PMV, keratin appears as hazy staining (less than 4 hr) and later organizes into keratin 'plaques' (4 days) associated with cell-cell contacts; post confluent (greater than 7 days) PMV cultures contain fully assembled cytokeratin filaments which extend to the cell periphery and approach filaments in apposed cells.
(10) While TCP was characterized by the frequent occurrence of large, discrete, dense calculi, patients with ACP had typically small, speckled calculi with irregular, hazy margins.
(11) Solutions stored in PVC bags became more hazy with time than solutions stored in glass or polyolefin containers.
(12) I just have some hazy recollection of seeing a bone sticking out of my left wrist."
(13) Information about the suspects, their backgrounds and what their role was in the murder of Nemtsov remains hazy.
(14) That would be an unfortunate ending to a process that should have been a timely intervention on a vital issue but now looks likely to splutter to a hazy conclusion.
(15) Some fear that the precise effects on the mosquitoes’ ecosystems are still hazy (while they might be our nemeses, there are fish that think they’re delicious).
(16) My alarm goes off at 7am and hazy-eyed I throw on my swimming costume and head to the lido across the road from my east London flat.
(17) The CT findings include; (1) granular pattern with acino-centric distribution, (2) increase in density of haziness in the lung fields, (3) multiform high density areas, and (4) "subpleural curvilinear shadow" localized posteriorly.
(18) After a deliberately hazy and meandering first half – one that lulls both reader and characters into a false sense of security – the second part of the novel barely breathes.
(19) Their appearance was granular with indistinct, hazy outlines, and on cross section they were solid rather than tubular.
(20) I’ve heard people say it in the past few years about black players and I think: ‘Well, you don’t really understand black players if that’s what your attitude is.’ They have the same goals and ambitions as everyone else.” In the informal, qualification-hazy world of football management, it’s always been about who you know, not what you know.