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Definition mist

Etymology

From Middle English mist, from Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *mig?-, *mig?-lo- (“drizzle, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyg?- (“to flicker, blink, be dark; cloud, mist”). Cognate with Scots mist (“mist, fog”), West Frisian mist (“mist”), Dutch mist (“mist”), Swedish mist (“mist, fog”), Icelandic mistur (“mist”), West Frisian miegelje (“to drizzle”), Dutch dialectal miggelen, miegelen (“to drizzle”), Lithuanian miglŕ (“fog”), Russian ???? (mgla, “fog, haze”).

Noun

mist (countable and uncountable, plural mists)

  1. (uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.
  2. (countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.
  3. (figuratively) Anything that dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.

Verb

mist (third-person singular simple present mists, present participle misting, simple past and past participle misted)

  1. To form mist.
  2. To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
  3. To cover with a mist.
  4. (of the eyes) To be covered by tears.

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