mist
/mɪst/ verb C2- To form mist. · It's misting this morning.
- To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water. · I mist my tropical plants every morning.
- To rain in very fine droplets.
- To cover with a mist. · The lens was misted.
- To be covered by tears. · My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.
- To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.
He/she/it mists · Past misted · Past participle misted · -ing form misting
Verb forms
- Base form
- mist
- He/she/it
- mists
- Past
- misted
- Past participle
- misted
- -ing form
- misting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He saw as though in a mist, a black figure kneeling and buried in a confused mass of white drapery.
Dantès made no resistance; he was like a man in a dream; he saw soldiers drawn up on the embankment; he knew vaguely that he was ascending a flight of steps; he was conscious that he passed through a door, and that the door closed behind him; but all this indistinctly as through a mist.
At this spot, so pregnant with fond and filial remembrances, his heart beat almost to bursting, his knees tottered under him, a mist floated over his sight, and had he not clung for support to one of the trees, he would inevitably have fallen to the ground and been crushed beneath the many vehicles continually passing there.
Certainly a grey mist swirled before my eyes, and when it cleared I found my collar-ends undone and the tingling after-taste of brandy upon my lips.
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