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FOG UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fog up mean? 

FOG UP (verb)
  The verb FOG UP has 1 sense:

1. get foggyplay

  Familiarity information: FOG UP used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FOG UP (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Get foggy

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Context example:

The windshield fogged up

Hypernyms (to "fog up" is one way to...):

cloud; overcast (make overcast or cloudy)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
It is ----ing


 Context examples 


The Professor stood up:—He has so used your mind; and by it he has left us here in Varna, whilst the ship that carried him rushed through enveloping fog up to Galatz, where, doubtless, he had made preparation for escaping from us.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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