mist
verb/mɪst/
/mɪst/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they mist | /mɪst/ /mɪst/ |
| he / she / it mists | /mɪsts/ /mɪsts/ |
| past simple misted | /ˈmɪstɪd/ /ˈmɪstɪd/ |
| past participle misted | /ˈmɪstɪd/ /ˈmɪstɪd/ |
| -ing form misting | /ˈmɪstɪŋ/ /ˈmɪstɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] mist (something) (up) | mist (over) when something such as glass mists or is misted, it becomes covered with very small drops of water, so that it is impossible to see through it
- The windows were misted up with condensation.
- As he came in from the cold, his glasses misted up.
- The windows were beginning to mist up with our breathing.
Homophones missed | mistmissed mist/mɪst//mɪst/- missed verb (past tense, past participle of miss)
- He missed his daughter when she left home.
- mist noun
- They could barely see each other through the thick mist.
- mist verb
- My glasses mist up every time I open the oven door!
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- [intransitive, transitive] if your eyes mist or something mists them, they fill with tears
- mist (over/up) Her eyes misted over as she listened to the speech.
- Her eyes misted over with tears.
- mist something (up) Tears misted his eyes.
- [transitive] mist something to spray something, for example the leaves of a plant, with very small drops of liquid
Word OriginOld English, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Greek omikhlē ‘mist, fog’.
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