drizzle

Meaning

Verb

1. To rain lightly.
2. To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
3. To pour slowly and evenly, especially oil or honey in cooking.
4. To cover by pouring in this manner.
5. (slang) To urinate.
6. To carry out parfilage, the process of unravelling.

Noun

1. Light rain.
2. Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.
3. (slang) Water.
4. A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.

Concepts

drizzle

sprinkle

light rain

drip

drizzling rain

mist

mizzle

drop

dribble

rain

shower

spray

spatter

trickle

moisten

fog

ooze

spit

drizzle with rain

breeze

fine rain

distribute

splash

sprinkling

serein

frost

misty rain

droplets of rain

mist of rain

precipitation

rainfall

fine mist

raindrop

thin rain

haze

rain gently

drizzling

flurry

bedew

dampen

humidify

moil

wash

fine spray

baste

douse

dowse

fall

peerl

heavy mist

misty

Hyphenated as

driz‧zle

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdɹɪz.l/

Etymology

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. Compare also dialectal Swedish drösla.

Sentences

The cold drizzle will halt the bond drive .