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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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  1. 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.
  2. v. t. To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
  3. n. Fine rain or mist.
  4. n. very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
  5. v. rain lightly
  6. v. moisten with fine drops
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. v:23/n:77 n. very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower v. rain lightly v. moisten with fine drops