Fog
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English
Noun
Fog (countable and uncountable; plural fogs)- (uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
- (uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.
- A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
- (photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
- (uncountable) A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
- (uncountable) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
- (uncountable) (Scotland) Moss.
Verb
Fog (third-person singular simple present Fogs, present participle fogging, simple past and past participle fogged)
- (intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.
- (intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.
- (intransitive, photography) To become dim or obscure.
- (transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.
- (transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.
- (transitive) To make confusing or obscure.
- (transitive, photography) To make dim or obscure.
Adjectives for Fog
transparent; antarctic; autumnal; dank; treacherous; opalescent; thick; black; rolling; gray; heavy; white; pea-soup; dense; chill; contagious; lowlying; relentless; increasing; germ-laden; midsummer; silent; drooping; blinding; impenetrable; miasmal; curling; dismal; decided; wall-like; opaque; blanketing; heartless.
Verbs for Fog
cut—; dispel—; disperse—; dissipate—; emerge from—; fathom—; grope in—; penetrate—; —abates; —blankets; —clears; — creeps up; —devours; —fades; —lifts; — settles on; —swallows up; —wraps around.
Thesaurus
addle, addle the wits, aerospace, aerosphere, aftergrass, air hole, air pocket, airspace, amorphousness, ball up, bamboo, becloud, bedazzle, bedim, befog, befuddle, befuddlement, bemist, bewilder, bewilderment, blur, bother, botheration, bug, bump, cane, ceiling, cereal, cereal plant, chaos, clabber up, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, confuse, confusion, corn, crosswind, dark, darken, darken over, darkness, daze, dazzle, defocus, deform, dim, discombobulate, discombobulation, discomfit, discomfiture, discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization, disorganize, disorient, disorientation, distort, distract, disturb, disturbance, drisk, drizzling mist, eclipse, embarrass, embarrassment, empty space, encloud, enmist, entangle, farinaceous plant, favorable wind, film, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog up, fogginess, forage grass, frenzy, front, frost smoke, fuddle, fuddlement, fuss, fuzz, fuzziness, gauze, grain, graminaceous plant, grass, haze, head wind, high-pressure area, hole, indeterminateness, indistinctness, ionosphere, jetstream, jumble, lawn grass, lose resolution, low-pressure area, make uncertain, maze, mess, mess up, mist, mistiness, mix up, moider, muddle, muddlement, muddy, mumbo jumbo, murk, murkiness, mystification, mystify, nubilate, obfuscate, obfuscation, obnubilate, obscurantism, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, opacity, ornamental grass, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, oversmoke, pale, pea soup, pea-soup fog, peasouper, perplex, perplexity, perturb, perturbation, pocket, pother, pucker, put out, puzzle, raise hell, rattle, reed, roughness, ruffle, shade, shadow, shapelessness, shuffle, smog, smoke, soften, soup, space, stew, stratosphere, substratosphere, sweat, swivet, tail wind, throw into confusion, tizzy, tropopause, troposphere, trough, turbulence, unsettle, unsettlement, unshape, upset, vagueness, vapor, visibility, visibility zero
