misting

Verb

mist (third-person singular simple present mists, present participle misting, simple past and past participle misted)

1. (intransitive) To form mist.
   • It's misting this morning.
2. (transitive) To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
   • I mist my tropical plants every morning.
3. (intransitive) To rain in very fine droplets.
   • ... it's misting outside. When it mists outside it's half fog and half rain.1996, Don McCabe, Word Families in Sentence Context, AVKO Foundation, →ISBN, page 235
4. (transitive) To cover with a mist.
   • The lens was misted.
5. (transitive) To be covered by tears.
   • My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.
6. To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.

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