fogging
- noun
- /ˈfɔɡɪŋ/
- To avoid fogging, use anti-fog spray on your goggles before swimming.
- prevent fogging
Examples
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Then he wets his mask lens with saliva to prevent fogging and, at last, enters the welcoming sea.
Fiction book (1995) -
Chomping popcorn from a striped white box, I looked through the windows of muscle cars and pickup trucks and watched couples entangle against the fogging glass.
Fiction book (1998) -
Once you're inside, you should get some fogging of the tube.
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I may do some light fogging out at the edges of this, that's definitely for sure.
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We would put a fogging shell in there and then we would just try and sit there for as long as possible until we wanted to.
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Extractor followers prevent the mirror from fogging and uncomfortable smells.
Blog text (25) -
My cockpit's fogging.
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I noticed the fogging on the glasses after stepping inside from the cold outside air.
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The fogging of the bathroom mirror made it difficult to see while getting ready.
Synonyms
Water that forms on a cold surface when warm air cools
A change that makes something cloudy so you cannot see through it
A liquid or the sky that is not clear because it has small bits in it
A lot of fog in the air that makes it hard to see
A thin cloud near the ground that makes things hard to see
How Foggy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fogging comes from fog ('mist' or 'cloud') and the ending -ing, so it simply means a surface being covered with mist and becoming hard to see through.