drizzle

Meaning of drizzle

noun
  1. light rain falling in very fine drops.
    Scotland will be cloudy with patchy drizzle
    a steady drizzle has been falling since 3 a.m
  2. (in cooking) a thin stream of a liquid ingredient trickled over food.
    raw mushrooms, thinly sliced and served with lemon, a little salt, and a drizzle of olive oil
verb
  1. rain lightly.
    it's started to drizzle
  2. (in cooking) trickle a thin stream of (a liquid ingredient) over food.
    drizzle the clarified butter over the top

mid 16th century: probably based on Old English drēosan ‘to fall’, of Germanic origin; probably related to dreary.

Information about drizzle

  • The plural form of drizzle is: drizzles.
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Hyphenation of drizzle

driz-zle

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • drizzle is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

drizzle synonyms

Meaning mizzle:

mizzle

Meaning moisten:

moisten

Meaning liquid that is blown or driven through the air in the form of tiny drops:

spray

Meaning a small flow of liquid:

trickle

Meaning a thin stream of liquid; a trickle:

dribble

Meaning a small drop of a liquid:

drip

Meaning a small round or pear-shaped portion of liquid that hangs or falls or adheres to a surface:

drop

Meaning a very small drop of a liquid:

droplet

Meaning a small, narrow river:

stream

Meaning a small stream of water or another liquid:

rivulet

Meaning a gutter:

runnel

Meaning a layer of food poured or spread over a base of a different type of food to add flavour:

topping

Meaning a thing used to protect, decorate, or conceal something else:

covering

Meaning a small quantity or amount of something scattered over an object or surface:

sprinkle

Meaning a small thinly distributed amount of something:

sprinkling

Meaning (of a mass of small things) fall or be thrown in a shower:

shower

Meaning rain slightly:

spot

Meaning light rain falls:

spit

Meaning cause (a liquid) to flow from a container in a steady stream:

pour

Meaning cause (liquid) to strike or fall on something in irregular drops:

splash

Meaning cause or allow (liquid) to flow over the edge of its container, especially unintentionally:

spill

Translation of drizzle

Words that rhyme with drizzle

adazzle, bedazzle, dazzle, frazzle, outdazzle, overdazzle, razzle, swazzle, undazzle, bezzle, embezzle, bedrizzle, crizzle, fizzle, frizzle, grizzle, mizzle, pizzle, rizzle, rumswizzle, sizzle, swizzle, twizzle, whizzle, zizzle, Vozzle, crozzle, dozzle, mozzle, nozzle, schemozzle, schnozzle, shemozzle, shimozzle, shlemozzle, snozzle, sozzle, swozzle, amuzzle, bemuzzle, bepuzzle, bumfuzzle, buzzle, empuzzle, fuzzle, guzzle, muzzle, nuzzle, puzzle, snuzzle

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