drizzling
present participle ofdrizzle
drizzle
verb
uk/ˈdrɪz.əl/us/ˈdrɪz.əl/drizzleverb(POUR)
[T]
topourliquidslowlyover something,especiallyin athinlineor insmalldrops:
Drizzle thesyrupoverthewarmcake.
Movement of liquids
- backsplash
- be dripping withsomethingidiom
- bleed
- decant
- discharge
- drainage
- drip
- eddy
- leak
- runsomeone/somethingover
- runnel
- seep
- seepage
- slosh
- spit
- topsomethingup
- trickle
- tub
- washsomethingaway
- waterborne
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Cookery terms
drizzleverb(RAIN)
[I]
toraininsmalllightdrops:
It's been drizzling allday.
Precipitation: rain
- bucket
- bucket down
- cloud seeder
- cloud seeding
- cloudburst
- deluge
- downpour
- drizzle
- heaven
- mizzle
- pelt
- piss
- piss down
- rain gauge
- rainbow
- rainstorm
- seed
- sun shower
- wash
- wash(something)out
Examplesofdrizzling
drizzling
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
When depression wasdrizzlingand melancholy settled in, you lie down facing the partner on the low bed with a short lamp, take turn to inhale.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The door was open and the child had just been lifted out of the pram and taken inside, out of thedrizzlingrain that had begun to fall.
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The whole of the week it rained thatdrizzlingrain which conserved its strength so that it should not run out of ammunition before the end of the week.
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November 24 was dark, with low clouds, fog, anddrizzlingrain.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In addition, it is possible to usedrizzlingto combine dithered images in the presence of cosmic rays.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At the time of the accident it wasdrizzlingand visibility was 3.5 km.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In spite of adrizzlingrain great crowds are about the morgues, some morbidly inclined, others searching for news of missing friends.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Drizzlingrain would begin again in early afternoon.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Tenkasi is famous for its "saaral" ("drizzling").
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.But it can also be as simple as sprinkling a fine coat of icing sugar ordrizzlinga glossy blanket of glaze over the top of a cake.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Adrizzlingrain soaked the field.
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