Thesaurus: drizzle
To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain.
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Definitions
- v. i. To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain.
- v. t. To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
- n. Fine rain or mist.
- n. very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
- v. rain lightly
- v. moisten with fine drops
- To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain. "Drizzling tears." Spenser. To shed slowly in minute drops or particles. "The air doth drizzle dew." Shak. Fine rain or mist. Halliwell.
- To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water fromthe clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzlingdrops or rain. "Drizzling tears." Spenser.
- v:23/n:77 n. very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower v. rain lightly v. moisten with fine drops