Drizzle Definition

drĭzəl

drizzled, drizzles, drizzling

verb

drizzled, drizzles, drizzling

To rain in fine, mistlike drops.

Webster's New World

To let fall in fine, mistlike drops.

Webster's New World

To drip or pour (a liquid) in a fine stream onto (a food)

Webster's New World

(slang) To urinate.

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Antonyms:
downpour

noun

drizzles

A fine, mistlike rain.

Webster's New World

Light rain.

Wiktionary

(physics, weather). Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground. It is sometimes accompanied by low visibility and fog.

No longer pouring, the rain outside slowed down to a faint drizzle.

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(slang) Water.

Stop drinking all of my drizzle!

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Synonyms:
mizzle

Other Word Forms of Drizzle

Noun

Singular:

drizzle

Plural:

drizzles

Origin of Drizzle

Perhaps a back-formation from dryseling, a dissimilated variant of Middle English drysning (“a falling of dew”), from Old English drysnan (“to extinguish”), related to Old English drēosan (“to fall, to decline”), making it cognate to modern English droze and drowse.

From Wiktionary
Perhaps from Middle English drisning fall of dew from Old English -drysnian (in gedrysnian to pass away, vanish) dhreu- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition