(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.
Laze
Definition:
(v. i.) To be lazy or idle.
(v. t.) To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 50 best beaches in the world Beaches are good for many things, and not just lazing on, as it happens.
(2) Dogs laze in the stifling afternoon heat of the Shire Valley.
(3) What feels new and fresh here isn't a threesome or a Grindr hook-up, but a scene where Agustín and his boyfriend are lazing on the sofa watching television.
(4) You can laze around beside a rooftop pool or dine at the outdoor (buffet) restaurant overlooking the beach.
(5) But lazing on the huge patio overlooking the ocean, well away from other buildings, will make you forget those inconveniences.
(6) Lazing in bed sets you back in this interminable rat race.
(7) Linger over brunch, join in a game of bocce (boules) or just laze by the fire pit.
(8) Next day we lazed on the city's sandy Catalans beach, just a few minutes from our hotel, the oh-so-Marseillaise Richelieu.
(9) Whitetip reef sharks laze ahead of their night-time feed, while mustard-yellow trumpetfish wriggle along past shoals of glittering bigeye jacks.
(10) "We are here for negotiations with Akhmetov," said Anton Kosenko, a self-styled MP of the Donetsk People's Republic, who was wearing a white suit and appeared to be in charge of a dozen fighters with automatic weapons and knives who were lazing on the grass outside the gates to Akhmetov's lavish residence.
(11) Hearing the drumbeat of the pro-marijuana lobby, you'd be excused if you believed the typical Jamaican was a Rastafarian pothead lazing on the beach amid the soporific sound of Bob Marley's One Love.
(12) Laze in the hammocks, splash about in your private pool or help yourself to fruit and veg from the garden and eggs from the free-range chickens.
(13) But the road was calling, just as it had done yesterday, when neither of us had wanted to leave Dar Ayniwen, a beautiful house in Marrakech's Palmeraie suburb, where we had lazed on the terrace and sipped gin and tonics as the call to prayer echoed through the dusk.
(14) While he was there, the editor of the university magazine, Clive James, published an early poem, but mostly Murray "lazed around and read the library.