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🌫️ Thin mist 😠 To bully newcomers 😵 Confused state 🌫️ To become cloudy
to haze

to haze

18 8.8
To force new members to do humiliating and painful tasks as part of joining
  • verb
  • /heɪz/
  • Offensive
translation icon : someter a novatadas
  • Now, yeah, I've heard that you guys kind of wanted to haze Woody when he first showed up because the whole crew is, the whole cast is very tight, famously tight.
  • education about hazing
  • prevention of hazing
  • hazing in marching bands

You're you're you're accepted or hazed or something.

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Examples

  • No, I would never go through hazing to be part of a group.

    Blog text (9)

  • We're gonna skip the "haze the new girl" thing.

    Little (2019)

  • Like, like we'll we'll definitely pull some kind of actually we have to haze her when she first starts.

  • Would you ever go through hazing to be part of a group?

    Blog text (9)

  • Would you ever go through hazing to be part of a group you really wanted to join?

    Blog text (9)

  • You guys still hazing your rookies there?

    Freedomland (2006)

  • What Yesuto endured was hazing, and it should have no part of the pledge process.

    Blog text (34)

  • The older members decided to haze the new recruits with embarrassing tasks during initiation week.

  • It's common for fraternities to haze new members as part of their tradition.

  • They thought it would be fun to haze the freshers by making them perform silly dares.

Synonyms

to dragoon
vsto haze
  • NSFW
1 9.7

To force someone to do something by threats or strong pressure

is initiation harassment that forces new members to perform humiliating tasks
to tan someone's hide
vsto haze
  • Archaic
9.5

To punish someone very harshly, often by hitting or scolding them

is initiation harassment that forces new members to perform humiliating tasks

Antonyms

to accept
793 1.0

To take something someone offers, for example a gift or invitation

to welcome
583 1.0

Greet someone in a friendly way when they arrive

Phrasal Verbs

to haze over
5.3

Look less clear as if covered by a thin mist

Compounds

morning haze
1 3.1

A thin mist in the early morning that makes the view soft

haze of confusion
7.2

A state of mind when you feel unclear and cannot think or decide

How Harsh

to torture
  • Offensive
582 5.7
to torment
  • NSFW
107 7.2
to abuse
  • NSFW
344 3.7
to haze
  • Offensive
18 8.8
to rag
  • Informal
1 7.2
to tease
245 1.9

Surface Forms

haze infinitive
hazed past
hazed past participle
hazing present participle
hazes third person singular

Etymology

The verb haze meaning 'to harass' is a later slang use, and a helpful way to remember it is to imagine putting someone in a 'fog' of hard tasks and shame. So to haze new members is to treat them roughly as part of joining a group.