"hazing" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈheɪzɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-hazing.wav [US] Forms: hazings [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪzɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} hazing (countable and uncountable, plural hazings)
  1. (US, Philippines) An initiation or behavior that involves humiliation, harassment or abuse, particularly in universities and in the military. Tags: Philippines, US, countable, uncountable Synonyms: ragging [South-Asia] Related terms: dedovshchina, hell week, pennalism Translations (humiliating initiation practices): ontgroening (Afrikaans), ontgroening [Netherlands, feminine] (Dutch), doop [Belgium, masculine] (Dutch), studentendoop (note: for students) [masculine] (Dutch), fiiniciado (Esperanto), mopotus (english: schools) (Finnish), simputus [military, war, government, politics] (Finnish), bizutage [masculine] (French), Deposition [archaic, feminine] (German), Initiationsritual [neuter] (German), καψώνι (kapsóni) [neuter] (Greek), perpeloncoan (Indonesian), 扱き (shigoki) (Japanese), praxe [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), trote [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese), novatada [feminine] (Spanish), nollning (Swedish), inspark (Swedish), inkilning (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-hazing-en-noun-PLFkv-IA Categories (other): American English, Philippine English

Verb

IPA: /ˈheɪzɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-hazing.wav [US]
Rhymes: -eɪzɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} hazing
  1. present participle and gerund of haze Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: haze
    Sense id: en-hazing-en-verb-tZDSnkUd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 71

Inflected forms

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