hazing
Meaning of hazing
- obscure with a haze.
a clump of islands, very green, but hazed in cloud and mist
early 18th century (originally denoting fog or hoar frost): probably a back-formation from hazy.
verb, gerund or present participle- force (a new or potential recruit to the military or a university fraternity) to perform strenuous, humiliating, or dangerous tasks.
rookies were mercilessly hazed
- drive (cattle) while on horseback.
he hazed them on and they clambered up through the rocks
late 17th century (originally Scots and dialect in the sense ‘frighten, scold, or beat’): perhaps related to obsolete French haser ‘tease or insult’.
Information about hazing
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of hazing is: hazings.
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Hyphenation of hazing
haz-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- hazing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with hazing
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