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Jackson6612 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Haze the fraternity pledges

3 haze
2 - to haze by way of initiation <haze the fraternity pledges>
[M-W's Col. Dic.]

I think "by way of" here means 'for the purpose of'. Senior students hazed him with the fraternity pledges. "hazed him with" - In the phrase used by M-W there is no 'with' there. Why is so? Does that phrase make sense to you? Please guide me on this. Thanks.
  

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I don't know where you found the sentence, but the meaning is: The senior students hazed him [along] with the [other] fraternity pledges.

  • I don't know where you found the sentence, but the meaning is: The senior students hazed him [along] with the [other] fraternity pledges.
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I don't know where you found the sentence, but the meaning is:

The senior students hazed him [along] with the [other] fraternity pledges.
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Mister MicawberI don't know where you found the sentence
I made it up myself:
Senior students hazed him with the fraternity pledges.

Mister MicawberThe senior students hazed him [along] with the [other] fraternity pledges.


Do the words in brackets stand for the corrected mistakes in the original, or,
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You need my bracketed words or equivalents only your original does not make enough sense out of context; that is all. There is no 'with' in the definition example because the dictionary has not created an example requiring the preposition.

From the same dictionary:

RUN: c : h
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Perhaps, I wasn't clear enough. "haze the fraternity pledges" seems to suggest that "fraternity pledges" is the object of "hazing" rather the object should be some person. "kill someone with a bullet" -that's correct. "kill the bullet" - this doesn't make any sense. Do you see my problem now?
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A 'fraternity pledge' is a person:

Pledge: 6. a person accepted for membership in a club, fraternity, or
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Thanks a lot, Mr Micawber.

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