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MIZZLE

• MIZZLE (noun)
The noun MIZZLE has 1 sense:

1. very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower

Familiarity information: MIZZLE used as a noun is very rare.

• MIZZLE (verb)
The verb MIZZLE has 1 sense:

1. rain lightly

Familiarity information: MIZZLE used as a verb is very rare.

• MIZZLE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

drizzle; mizzle

Hypernyms ("mizzle" is a kind of...):

rain; rainfall (water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere)

• MIZZLE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Rain lightly

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Synonyms:

drizzle; mizzle

Context example:

When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant

Hypernyms (to "mizzle" is one way to...):

rain; rain down (precipitate as rain)

Sentence frame:

It is ----ing

Sentence example:

It was mizzleing all day long

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(English proverb)
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(Bhutanese proverb)
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(Arabic proverb)
"The maquis has no eyes, but it sees all."
(Corsican proverb)

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