Dictionary Home » Dictionary Definitions » drizzle

drizzle

Listen See in Thesaurus See in a sentence

The definition of a drizzle is a light rain or mist.

(noun)

An example of a drizzle is a rain that puts many little drops on your windshield.

Drizzle is defined as to fall in fine drops, or to pour liquid in a thin stream.

(verb)

An example of drizzle is for the rain to fall in small, mist-like drops.
An example of drizzle is to pour a thin line of olive oil over vegetables that you're roasting.

See drizzle in Webster's New World College Dictionary

intransitive verb drizzled, drizzling

to rain in fine, mistlike drops

Origin: prob. freq. of ME *drisnen (found only as ger. drisning), to fall as dew, akin to Norw dial. drysja, to drizzle & OE dreosan: see dreary

transitive verb

to let fall in fine, mistlike drops
Cooking to drip or pour (a liquid) in a fine stream onto (a food)

noun

a fine, mistlike rain

Related Forms:

drizzly adjective

See drizzle in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb driz·zled, driz·zling, driz·zles

verb, intransitive

To rain gently in fine, mistlike drops.

verb, transitive

To let fall in fine drops or particles: drizzled melted butter over the asparagus.
To moisten with fine drops: drizzled the asparagus with melted butter.

noun

A fine, gentle, misty rain.

Origin:

Origin: Perhaps from Middle English drisning, fall of dew

Origin: , from Old English -drysnian

Origin: , in gedrysnian, to pass away, vanish; see dhreu- in Indo-European roots

Related Forms: