MIZZLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mizzle mean? 

• MIZZLE (noun)
  The noun MIZZLE has 1 sense:

1. very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower

  Familiarity information: MIZZLE used as a noun is very rare.

• MIZZLE (verb)
  The verb MIZZLE has 1 sense:

1. rain lightly

  Familiarity information: MIZZLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIZZLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

drizzle; mizzle

Hypernyms ("mizzle" is a kind of...):

rain; rainfall (water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere)

Derivation:

mizzle (rain lightly)

• MIZZLE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rain lightly

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Synonyms:

drizzle; mizzle

Context example:

When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant

Hypernyms (to "mizzle" is one way to...):

rain; rain down (precipitate as rain)

Sentence frame:

It is ----ing

Sentence example:

It was mizzleing all day long

Derivation:

mizzle (very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower)

 Context examples 

“Now you may mizzle, jemmy (as we say at Court), and if Mr. Copperfield will take the chair I'll operate on him.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)