Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of drizzle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. raining lightly in a fine mist.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of rain) falling lightly in very small drops
Examples
“It was an ice rain drizzling evening, so the weather suppressed the crowd.”
“Three o'clock on a December afternoon; the rain drizzling; one light low in the skylight of a drapery emporium; another high in a servant's bedroom – this one goes out.”
“Lookouts at the mastheads could report no land, and the day passed in drizzling calms and violent squalls.”
“Our she-cousin Scott did visit me this day with sore complaints of her husband's humours and constant drizzling, which is more than a woman can or ought to bear.”
“My "drizzling" was less than spectacular, but it may have turned out better had I looked at the photo in Mario Batali's cookery book before I poured it out.”
“It was a raw, comfortless morning — a kind of drizzling fog hung heavily over the scene, dimming the light of the sun, which had now risen, into a pale and even a grey glimmer.”
“It has been kind of drizzling recently but nothing worth putting an umbrella up in.”
“It was a raw, comfortless morning -- a kind of drizzling fog hung heavily over the scene, dimming the light of the sun, which had now risen, into a pale and even a grey glimmer.”
“It was a little before noon when we drove into Stratford, by which time, with our usual fatality in visiting poetic shrines, the day had melted off into a kind of drizzling mist, strongly suggestive of a downright rain.”
“It was kind of drizzling and misting, and hitting the road and freezing," making the roads extra slippery, Wolf said.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘drizzling’.
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movement (slow)
words describing slow action or movement
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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Doctor Faustus
Various words from the play by Christopher Marlowe.
Good Angel, Bad Angel, pride, covetousness, envy, wrath, gluttony, sloth, lechery, vintner, horse-courser, Helen of Troy and 148 more...
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Nigella Bites
words from the cookbook "Nigella Bites" by Nigella Lawson
intend, evangelical, present, nattering space, inevitably, consequently, techniques, liqueur, purist, frankly, constraints, jot and 256 more...
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