MEANING
1. 1) To rain in extremely fine drops. 2) In chiefly British use, to depart suddenly.
2. In chiefly British usage, to leave suddenly or disappear from a place.
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It mizzled through the grey afternoon, beading the window without quite becoming rain.
He mizzled off before anyone could ask where he had been.
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Word forms
- Base
- mizzle
- Past tense
- mizzled
- Past participle
- mizzled
- Present participle
- mizzling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- mizzle
- Present continuous
- am/is/are mizzling
- Present perfect
- have/has mizzled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been mizzling
- Past
- mizzled
- Past continuous
- was/were mizzling
- Past perfect
- had mizzled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been mizzling
- Future
- will mizzle
- Future continuous
- will be mizzling
- Future perfect
- will have mizzled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been mizzling
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