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drizzle

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1. drizzle - Noun

2. drizzle - Verb

Meaning

To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain.

To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.

Fine rain or mist.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle. O. Henry

And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears. Vladimir Nabokov

Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you. Edwidge Danticat

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. William Styron

At first glance, My Super Sweet 16 appears to be a sugary bit of reality drizzle about some irritating American brats, but the more you watch it the more you realize it's actually a stonehearted exposé of everything that's wrong with our faltering so-called civilization. Charlie Brooker

It's the merry drizzle that makes grass grow fine. Italian Proverb

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