Haze

Noun

 * 1) Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility.
 * 2) * 1772 December, James Cook, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Around the World, vol. 1 ch. 2:
 * Our hopes, however, soon vanished; for before eight o'clock, the serenity of the sky was changed into a thick haze, accompanied with rain.
 * 1) * 1895, H.G. Wells, The Cone:
 * A blue haze, half dust, half mist, touched the long valley with mystery.
 * 1) The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
 * 2) * 1998, Leonard I. Nass and Charles A. Heiberger, Encyclopedia of PVC, ISBN 0824778227, page 318:
 * Haze is listed as a percent value and, typically, is about 1% for meat film.
 * 1)  Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
 * 2) * 1985, Philip Jackisch, Modern Winemaking, ISBN 0801414555, page 69:
 * Various clarifying and fining agents are used in winemaking to remove hazes.
 * 1) Mental confusion; the state of being in a haze.
 * 2) * 2000, Daphné Du Maurier, The Scapegoat, ISBN 081221725X, page 218:
 * In my haze of alcohol, I thought for one crazy instant that he had plumbed my secret.

Derived terms

 * haze over
 * hazy

Verb

 * 1) 🇺🇸 To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college or military unit.
 * 2) To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.

Adjectives for Haze
blossomy; luminous; suspended; soft; emotional; hueless; silver; blue; purple; smoke gauzy; transparent; waterish; golden; mel lowing; murky; burning; yellow; soft; faint autumnal; amber; glittering; diaphanous fictitious; Indian Summer; nebulous; iridescent; mournful; dim; gray; damp; misty; penumbral; somnolent; fluid; shimmering; reddish; sumptuous; moonlit; drowsy; vanishing; undefinable; deepening; shining; tremulous; glimmering; noontide; languor- finely-molded; firm; flame-red; flattened; flaunted; flaxen; fleshy; flowerless; forked; forlorn; frizzled; frowzy; gasping; ghastly; gleaming; glossy; golden; golden-mouthed; good-natured; gossipy; graceful; graduated; grizzled; grotesque; hairless; hairy; handsome; happy; haughty; heaven-saluting; heavy; heavy-jawed; heavy-jeweled; hel-meted; helpless; henna; hideous; high-held; hoary; hooded; hopeless; horny; horrible; horrid; huge; hunted; ignorant; immortal; impassioned; imperial; imperious; impotent; impressive; impudent; impulsive; inclined; incongruous; inert; inexperienced; inquisitive; intellectual; intelligent; intermediate.

Verbs for Haze
clear—; disappear in—; falter in—; grope in—; lose in—; mingle with—; penetrate—" —develops; —dims; —encompasses; —lifts —frosts; —hangs; —hovers over; —melts —mists; —obscures; —rests on.

Thesaurus
London fog, London special, absentmindedness, abstraction, banter, becloud, befog, befuddlement, bemist, bemusement, bewilderment, bother, botheration, chaff, chaos, clabber up, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, cloudiness, confusion, darken, darken over, daze, dim, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization, disorientation, disturbance, dream, drisk, drizzling mist, embarrassment, encloud, enmist, film, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, frenzy, frost smoke, fuddle, fuddlement, gauze, jape, jest, jive, joke, jolly, josh, jumble, kid, maze, mess, mist, mistiness, muddle, muddleheadedness, muddlement, murk, murkiness, needle, nubilate, obnubilate, obscure, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, oversmoke, pea soup, pea-soup fog, peasouper, perplexity, perturbation, pother, preoccupation, pucker, put on, rag, rally, razz, reverie, rib, ride, roast, ruffle, shade, shadow, shuffle, smog, smoke, smokiness, stew, stupor, sweat, swivet, tease, tizzy, trance, twit, unsettlement, upset, vapor, woolgathering

Etymology
Formerly also hase; the earliest instances are of the latter part of the 17th century. Compare Old Norse höss:, akin to Old English hasu:. Origin unknown; there is nothing to connect the word with Old English hasu:, haso:.

Noun

 * Estonian: uduvine
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * German:


 * Japanese: 煙霧 (enmu)
 * Korean: 연무 (yeonmu)
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: himmeys


 * Korean: 헤이즈 (heijeu)


 * Finnish: sameus


 * Finnish:


 * : smog, nebbia
 * : مه (meh)

Verb

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