haze

Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)

Our hopes, however, soon vanished; for before eight o'clock, the serenity of the sky was changed into a thick haze, accompanied with rain.

A blue haze, half dust, half mist, touched the long valley with mystery.

A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.

An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.

The soap left a persistent haze on the drinking glasses.

The furniture has a haze, possibly from some kind of wax.

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?

In my haze of alcohol, I thought for one crazy instant that he had plumbed my secret.

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.

To be or become hazy, or thick with haze.

Pyramids of clouds now fringed its edge, and the centre had hazed into a sandy mist.

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.

To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.

[…] when the young man whirled his horse, “hazed” Jupiter in circles and belaboured him with a rawhide quirt, […] He ceased his cavortings […]

In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.

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.