B2verb · transitive · rare

mist

mist · mists · misted · misting

затьмарити, затьмарювати

орошать

verschleiern

To form mistTo form mist.

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/mɪst/

» The mist is clearing.

Der Nebel löst sich auf.

Туман рассеивается.

Туман розсіюється.

Meaning

6 senses

(intransitive)To form mist.
It's misting this morning.
become covered with mist
(transitive)To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
I mist my tropical plants every morning.
орошатьorošatʹ
(intransitive)To rain in very fine droplets.
(transitive)To cover with a mist.
The lens was misted.
spray finely or cover with mist
(transitive)To be covered by tears.
My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.
To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.

Examples

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The mist is clearing.
Туман розсіюється.
ruТуман рассеивается.
deDer Nebel löst sich auf.
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A boat suddenly appeared out of the mist.
ruВнезапно из тумана выплыла лодка.
deAus dem Dunst erschien plötzlich ein Schiff.
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Tom disappeared into the mist.
ruТом исчез в тумане.
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Down in the valley a mist like a white feather rose gently into a white cloud, and obscured everything.
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A mist hung over the river.
ruНад рекой висел туман.
deEs hing Nebel über dem Fluss.
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Translations

4 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

to spray fine droplets on:

Origin

The noun is from Middle English mist, from Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of

The noun is from Middle English mist, from Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰstos, from the root *h₃meygʰ- (“cloud, fog, drizzle”). 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 miglà (“fog”), Sanskrit मेघ (megha, “cloud”), Russian мгла (mgla, “fog, haze”).

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