Smog

Quick meaning: Smog is a noun meaning A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.

Meaning

A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.

More Meanings

1. (informal) To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions.

Example Sentences

If the car is more than five years old, you'll have to have it smogged before you can register it.

A widow since 1967, she lives now in Honolulu because, she says, she can enjoy the Californialike climate without the smog.

Everyone smoked so if the auditorium was full, the whole room would be filled with smoke in next to no time. It was like the legendary London smog of the 1950s in there sometimes. You took it in turn to “flash the ash” as it was called.

Word Forms

• smogs
• smogging
• smogged

Synonyms for smog

Depending on context, synonyms include pea-souper, smogginess.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include smogginess, haze, pollution, fog, mist, air.

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