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Synonyms for drizzle
ˈdrɪz əldriz·zle

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Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. drizzle, mizzleverb

    very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower

    Synonyms:
    mizzle

  2. drizzle, mizzleverb

    rain lightly

    "When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant"

    Synonyms:
    mizzle, moisten

  3. drizzle, moistenverb

    moisten with fine drops

    "drizzle the meat with melted butter"

    Synonyms:
    mizzle, moisten, wash, dampen

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  1. trickle

    to slowly leak out of a container of any material.

    her bucket was not strong enough and the water would always drizzle out.

    Submitted by anonymous on April 2, 2020  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. drizzleverb

    Synonyms:
    rain (in small drops), mizzle

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.0 / 1 vote

  1. drizzlenoun

    Synonyms:
    mizzle, misle, mist

  2. drizzleverb

    Synonyms:
    mizzle, misle

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "drizzle":

    <, mist, brown

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#5204wash
#12091mist
#34163drizzle
#51445dampen
#87201moisten

How to use drizzle in a sentence?

  1. Alyssa Dweck:

    Again, it’s those three hormones, estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, that decrease and cause a weakened orgasm response that can be more like a drizzle than a thunderstorm.

  2. Dawn Jackson Blatner:

    If you look at your plate and you have what you can guesstimate is a half-cup of a grain, that’s going to be roughly 150 calories ; if you see a reasonably sized piece of protein, it’s likely about 3 ounces, or about 150 calories, and if you see a lot of vegetables, topped with just a little bit of fat, like a drizzle of olive oil, you’re probably adding up to about a 400 to 450 calorie meal.

  3. Gina Hassick:

    I would stick with two pancakes for an appropriate serving size, top with cinnamon and blueberries or bananas, and drizzle lightly with pure maple syrup.

  4. John Green:

    But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating so I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane.

  5. Avigdor Liberman:

    If Iran hits us with a drizzle here, we will hit them with a downpour there. there are many radical Islamists, but Iran is the only one which is really.


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