mist

About 4.81 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.

   It was difficult to see through the morning mist.

2. noun A layer of fine droplets or particles.

   There was an oily mist on the lens.

3. noun Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.
4. verb To form mist.

   It's misting this morning.

5. verb To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.

   I mist my tropical plants every morning.

6. verb To rain in very fine droplets.
7. verb To cover with a mist.

   The lens was misted.

8. verb To be covered by tears.

   My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.

Similar words

fog mist over haze over befog cloud becloud obscure vapor rain defrost

Often followed by

of and that was in which or is had

Word family

misted misting mists