haze

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a slight obscuring of the atmosphere by dust, smoke, or vapor

   A summer haze blurred the distant hills into soft gray shapes.

2. 2
   verb

   to make a view less clear by covering it with a fine mist or haze

   Smoke began to haze the distant hills.

Multiword verbs with haze

• haze over Phrasal verb C2+

  to cover something with a misty layer that makes it difficult to see clearly

Appears in

Of uncertain origin, recorded from the late seventeenth century; perhaps a back-formation from hazy, itself of obscure derivation, possibly related to Old English hasu ('gray').

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