Usually means: Light, continuous rain; smaller droplets.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. drizzle: Merriam-Webster
  2. drizzle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. drizzle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. drizzle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. drizzle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Drizzle, drizzle: Wordnik
  7. drizzle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. drizzle: Wiktionary
  9. drizzle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. drizzle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. drizzle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Drizzle, drizzle: Dictionary.com
  13. drizzle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. drizzle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Drizzle (database), Drizzle (database server), Drizzle (disambiguation), Drizzle (image processing), Drizzle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Drizzle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. drizzle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. drizzle: Rhymezone
  19. Drizzle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. drizzle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. drizzle: FreeDictionary.org
  22. drizzle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. drizzle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. drizzle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. drizzle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technopedia (No longer online)
  2. drizzle: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drizzle: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. drizzle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Drizzle: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. drizzle, the drizzle: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See drizzled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (impersonal) To rain lightly.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
verb:  (cooking, transitive) To pour slowly and evenly, especially oil or honey in cooking.
verb:  (cooking, transitive) To cover by pouring in this manner.
verb:  (slang) To urinate.
verb:  (dated) To carry out parfilage, the process of unravelling.
noun:  Light rain.
noun:  (physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.
noun:  (slang) Water.
noun:  (baking) A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.

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