drizzle
About 0.74 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To rain lightly.
We had planned a picnic for Joe's birthday, but it ended up drizzling all day.
- verb To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
- verb To pour slowly and evenly, especially oil or honey in cooking.
The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle olive oil on it.
- verb To cover by pouring in this manner.
The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle it in olive oil.
- verb To urinate.
She'll be right back, had to drizzle before we leave.
- verb To carry out parfilage, the process of unravelling.
- noun Light rain.
- noun 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.
Similar words
mizzle moisten cloudy rain mist fog squirt dark brown drip
Often followed by
with of and the that had over was in
Word family
drizzled drizzles drizzling drizzlingly
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