mist

Plural: mists

Noun

a thin fog with condensation near the ground
Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)
A layer of fine droplets or particles.
Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.

Verb

Verb Forms: misted, misting, mists

To become blurry or covered with a fine spray.
become covered with mist
- "The windshield misted over"
make less visible or unclear
spray finely or cover with mist
To form mist.
To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
To cover with a mist.
To be covered by tears.
To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.
past of miss

Examples

I mist my tropical plants every morning.
It was difficult to see through the morning mist.
It's misting this morning.
My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.
The lens was misted.
The screen began to MIST, making it hard to see the Words With Friends board.
There was an oily mist on the lens.

Origin / Etymology

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”).
The verb is from Middle English misten, from Old English mistian.

Synonyms

becloud, befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist over, obnubilate, obscure, brume

Scrabble Score: 6

mist: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
mist: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mist: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

mist: valid Words With Friends Word