to mist
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3.1
- verb
- /mɪst/
:
empañarse
- The way that mists over your hair is like this big cloud of fine mist.
- eyes misted
- rain mists
- misted glass
Examples
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The trees hovered motionless about them, the misted half-light a curtain of gauze.
Fiction book (1992) -
The light rain, persistent and elegiac, misted against the windows.
Fiction book (1994) -
Her eyes seemed to mist, but it might have been a trick of the candlelight.
Fiction book (2002) -
The morning sun fell in misted shafts through the trees.
Fiction book (1990) -
My eyes had misted over, and my left leg was shaking uncontrollably.
Fiction book (2001) -
The winter woods were gone; all was pasture, sweet rolling hills misted over with flowers.
Fiction book (2000) -
Again she smiled, her eyes misted with a faraway look.
Fiction book (1990) -
Sadly, he shakes his blond head and briefly closes his misted blue eyes.
Fiction book (2002) -
As she spoke about the past, her eyes began to mist from the emotions overwhelming her.
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The morning sun made the dew on the grass mist as it warmed up.
Synonyms
86
7.0
Make something hard to see or understand
56
4.4
To make something less clear or bright by covering it
7
5.2
To make something hard to see or understand
5
2.8
Get covered with small drops of water that make glass or mirrors hard to see through
1
4.7
To become cloudy and hard to see through
1
7.0
To spray a liquid into a fine mist
1
8.9
To make something less clear and hard to see, often by smoke, fog or strong feelings
Become covered with a thin layer of water that makes glass or mirrors hard to see through
To make something hard to see or understand
Make something unclear or hard to understand
Look less clear as if covered by a thin mist
To fall as very light rain in small drops
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Become covered with a thin layer of water that makes glass or mirrors hard to see through
Compounds
- Informal
1
8.4
A very strong feeling of anger that makes you lose control and stop thinking clearly
A tropical climbing flower with fine leaf parts and a strong smell when crushed
- Specialized
A plant that lives for many years with large bright blue flower clusters that attract butterflies
How Blurry
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mist in the sense 'to become covered with fine drops' goes back to old English mist 'fog' or 'steam'. So when glass or a lens is 'misted' it is covered in tiny drops and becomes blurred or less clear.