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Gazing vs Hazing - What's the difference?

gazing | hazing |

As nouns the difference between gazing and hazing

is that gazing is the act by which somebody gazes while hazing is (us) an initiation or behavior that involves humiliation, harassment or abuse, particularly in universities and in the military.

As a verb gazing

is .

gazing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody gazes.
  • * 1836 , Francis Egerton Earl of Ellesmere, Town and Country (page 6)
  • There is a dangerous freshness in the hues / Of the new bonnets which that day produces / Bright from the bandbox, be they greens or blues; / The aspect of a new pelisse conduces / To gazings which the gazer often rues.

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    hazing

    English

    (wikipedia hazing)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) An initiation or behavior that involves humiliation, harassment or abuse, particularly in universities and in the military.
  • See also

    * hell week * praxe * dedovshchina