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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To rain gently in fine, mistlike drops.
  2. v. To let fall in fine drops or particles: drizzled melted butter over the asparagus.
  3. v. To moisten with fine drops: drizzled the asparagus with melted butter.
  4. n. A fine, gentle, misty rain.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To fall, as water from the clouds, in very fine particles; rain in small drops: as, it drizzles; drizzling drops; drizzling rain.
  2. To shed in small drops or particles.
  3. n. A light rain; mizzle; mist.
  4. n. A local English name of the young ling. Also called ling-drizzle.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To rain lightly.
  2. v. cooking To pour slowly and evenly, especially with oil in cooking.
  3. v. slang To urinate.
  4. n. Light rain.
  5. n. physics, weather . Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground. It is sometimes accompanied by low visibility and fog.
  6. n. slang Water.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles
  2. v. To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
  3. n. A fine rain or mist.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. rain lightly
  2. v. moisten with fine drops
  3. n. very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower

Etymologies

  1. Perhaps a back-formation from dryseling, a dissimilated variant of Middle English drysning ("a falling of dew"), from Old English drysnan ("to extinguish"), related to Old English drēosan ("to fall, to decline"), making it cognate to modern English droze and drowse. (Wiktionary)
  2. Perhaps from Middle English drisning, fall of dew, from Old English -drysnian, in gedrysnian, to pass away, vanish; see dhreu- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. mizzle
  1. misle
  1. rain
  1. spray
  1. drow

hypernyms (6)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. rain down
  1. rain
  1. splosh
  1. splash
  1. sprinkle
  1. rainfall

same context (22)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. downpour
  2. dampness
  3. sleet
  4. trickle
  1. murk
  2. squall
  3. fog
  4. dusk
  1. drip
  2. overcast
  3. gust
  4. chill
  1. breeze
  2. rain
  3. dew
  4. patter
  1. grayness
  2. sheen
  3. wetness
  4. sunshine
  1. perspiration
  2. stillness

rhymes (5)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Frizell
  1. chisel
  1. fizzle
  1. grizzle
  1. sizzle

reverse dictionary (13)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. drizzle
  2. ling
  1. mizzle
  2. dag
  1. bedrizzle
  2. smur
  1. drizzly
  2. haze
  1. drisk
  2. leaden
  1. definition
  2. misle
  1. mistle

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  1. weather
  1. rain
  1. ccvcccv
  1. one-dollar word
  1. fun to say
  1. color:#76B1BA_mxip

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  • slumry 1543, alteration of drysning. Jun 26, 2007

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