English Dictionary

haze

IPA（発音記号）

/heɪz/

動詞

アメリカ英語 くだけた表現 他動詞

(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.

日本語の意味

新入生や新兵など、通常は同意のない個人に対して、不快な入会儀式やいじめのような儀式を行うこと（非公式な表現）。

Upperclassmen tried to haze the freshmen during the overnight pledge event, but the campus police intervened.

先輩たちは一晩中行われた誓願イベントで新入生に屈辱的な入会儀式を強要しようとしたが、キャンパス警察が介入した。

意味（1）

(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.

意味（2）

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 […]

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

(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.

hazes （ present singular third-person ）

hazing （ participle present ）

hazed （ participle past ）

hazed （ past ）