drizzle

Meaning

Verb

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

Noun

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

Synonyms

light rain

sprinkle

drip

mizzle

mist

drizzling rain

drop

dribble

rain

🌧️

shower

🚿

spray

spatter

moisten

fog

🌫️

trickle

breeze

ooze

fine rain

spit

drizzle with rain

wash

🧽

misty rain

heavy mist

rain gently

droplets of rain

mist of rain

fine mist

thin rain

fine spray

baste

peerl

bedew

dampen

distribute

douse

dowse

drizzling

fall

flurry

frost

haze

humidify

misty

moil

precipitation

raindrop

rainfall

serein

splash

sprinkling

Translations

bruine

Nieselregen

Sprühregen

llovizna

bruiner

crachin

pioggerella

pioviggine

nieseln

lloviznar

piovigginare

pluie fine

motregen

garúa

motregenen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdɹɪz.l/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: drysning

Inherited from Old English: drysnan

Cognate with Old English: drēosan

Cognate with Swedish: drösla

In summary

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 .