noun

• (figuratively) Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
  "And is it that the haze of grief ⁠Hath stretch’d my former joy so great? ⁠The lowness of the present state, That sets the past in this relief?"
• (uncountable, engineering, packaging) The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
  "Haze is listed as a percent value and, typically, is about 1% for meat film."
• (countable, brewing) Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
  "Various clarifying and fining agents are used in winemaking to remove hazes."

verb

• (US, informal) To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college fraternity or military unit.
• (transitive) In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.
• (transitive) To use aversive stimuli on (a wild animal, such as a bear) to encourage it to keep its distance from humans.
  "Hazing a bear involves creating a "negative experience for a bear that seeks out human food or loses its natural avoidance of humans and developed areas," the release said. That involves using non-lethal rubber shotgun slugs, or rubber rounds and noise-deterrent rounds in sequence to scare bears away, according to the release."