Drizzle

/ˈdɹɪzəl/ · verb

Meaning

(impersonal) To rain lightly..

Definitions by Sense

1. (impersonal) To rain lightly.
2. (ambitransitive) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
3. (cooking, transitive) To pour slowly and evenly, especially oil or honey in cooking.
4. (cooking, transitive) To cover by pouring in this manner.
5. (slang) To urinate.
6. (dated) To carry out parfilage, the process of unravelling.
7. Light rain.
8. (physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.

Example Sentences

We had planned a picnic for Joe's birthday, but it ended up drizzling all day.

And from mine eyes the drizling teares descend, As on your boughes the ysicles depend.

When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew; But for the sunset of my brother’s son It rains downright.

The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle olive oil on it.

The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle it in olive oil.

She'll be right back, had to drizzle before we leave.

She found that all those ladies who did not play at cards occupied their fingers with parfilage.[...] Here, the work was called drizzling. Ladies begged their friends to give them pieces of the gold lace used on uniforms and the gold tassels of sword-belts, they picked out the metal threads, and by selling these they realised considerable sums. Prince Leopold himself drizzled continually[...]

Up here, it's a 'dreich' day with steady drizzle. Deep drainage channels either side of the track are already more like streams: Rannoch Moor is a wet place.

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Word Forms

• drizzles
• drizzling
• drizzled

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