drizzle
/ˈdɹɪzəl/ noun C2- Light rain.
- Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground. · No longer pouring, the rain outside slowed down to a faint drizzle.
- Water. · Stop drinking all of my drizzle!
- Something that is drizzled.
- A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
Plural drizzles
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There was now a fine, cold drizzle falling, and the wind had risen from its uncertain puffs into a steady blow.
October 16th.—A dull and foggy day with a drizzle of rain.
The weather conditions were incredibly unpromising, characterized by a persistent drizzle and strong, unpredictable gusts of wind.
It is a testament to the charming capriciousness of youth that you view the relentless English drizzle through the romantic lens of a nineteenth-century novelist.
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