hazing

noun

haz·​ing ˈhā-ziŋ 

: the action of hazing

especially : an initiation process involving someone (as a fraternity pledge) who is subjected to unpleasant tricks or forced to do unpleasant or unsafe things

Examples of hazing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Case led to indictment, fraternity chapter shutdown Eslick and two other 20-year-old executive board members of the Northern Arizona University's Delta Tau Delta fraternity chapter were initially arrested on suspicion of hazing. — Perry Vandell, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026

Parents in the Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, school district spoke out at a school board meeting Tuesday night in the wake of a hazing investigation into the high school football program. — Chilekasi Adele, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026

Some of the attacks, both by organized Jewish groups and by individual writers, were more like hazing than criticism—vicious, personal, encompassing. — David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

But there was also a kinetic, cold-blooded hazing environment thanks to the large swath of unruly cadets of all ages and backgrounds. — Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1850, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for hazing

• blazing
• brazing
• crazing
• gazing
• glazing
• grazing
• phasing
• phrasing
• praising
• raising
• razing
• amazing