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Haze   /heɪz/   Listen
Haze

noun
1.
Atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility.
2.
Confusion characterized by lack of clarity.  Synonyms: daze, fog.
verb
1.
Become hazy, dull, or cloudy.
2.
Harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions.



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"Haze" Quotes from Famous Books



... Environment: haze, duststorms, sandstorms common; limited freshwater resources mean increasing dependence on large-scale ...
— The 1990 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... wander from Flavigny. The first thing I saw as I came into the street and noted how the level sun stood in a haze beyond, and how it shadowed and brought out the slight irregularities of the road, was a cart drawn by a galloping donkey, which came at and passed me with a prodigious clatter as I dragged myself forward. In the cart were two nuns, each with a scythe; they ...
— The Path to Rome • Hilaire Belloc

... haze. Vaguely he perceived the gleam of tears on the face of Elizabeth. And he had heard her say: "All the time I didn't know, Terry. I thought I was ashamed of the blood in you. But this girl opened my eyes. She told me the truth. The reason I took you in was because ...
— Black Jack • Max Brand

... Preoccupied, and each thinking over his individual trials, the partners ate their food and arose from the table. Out on the doorstep they paused to look down the canyon, now shorn of ugliness and rendered beautiful by the purple twilight. The faint haze of smoke from the banked fires, rising above the steel chimney of the boiler-house, was the only stirring, ...
— The Plunderer • Roy Norton

... miles to the nearest telephone and summoned a machine from town. The town itself we could see, the Lakanaii metropolis of Olokona, a smudge of smoke on the shore-line, as we looked down across the miles of cane-fields, the billow-wreathed reef-lines, and the blue haze of ocean to where the island of Oahu shimmered like a dim opal on ...
— On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales • Jack London


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