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get misty

get misty verb: to get tears in someone's eyes; to feel sentimental.

Verb

get misty (third-person singular simple present gets misty, present participle getting misty, simple past got misty, past participle gotten misty or got misty)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, sarcastic) To get tears in someone's eyes; to feel sentimental.

Forms of get misty

third-person singular presentgets misty
present participlegetting misty
pastgot misty
past participlegotten misty
past participlegot misty

Questions about get misty

What does get misty mean?
Get misty means to get tears in someone's eyes; to feel sentimental.
What part of speech is get misty?
Get misty is a verb.
What is the past tense of get misty?
The past tense of get misty is got misty.

Words near get misty in the dictionary

  1. get lost
  2. get lucky
  3. get Mario Karted
  4. get married
  5. get medieval
  6. get misty
  7. get moving
  8. get nowhere fast
  9. get off
  10. get off at Haymarket
  11. get off at Redfern

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