1. haze - Noun
2. haze - Verb
3. Haze - Proper noun
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.
To be hazy, or tick with haze.
To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere are people who read too much bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze. . . H. L. Mencken
The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze. Quentin Crisp
Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze. Paul Desmond
Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte smelt the dead's gangrene Heard the singing guillotine. Peter Weiss
To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair. André Maurois
But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters. E. M. Forster