noun, verb
noun [U,C]
1 a thick cloud of very small drops of water in the air close to the land or sea, that is very difficult to see through:
Dense / thick fog is affecting roads in the north and visibility is poor. * freezing fog * Patches of fog will clear by mid-morning. * We get heavy fogs on this coast in winter. * The town was covered in a thick blanket of fog.
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2 a state of confusion, in which things are not clear:
He went through the day with his mind in a fog.
verb (-gg-)
1 [V, VN] ~ (sth) (up) if a glass surface fogs or is fogged up, it becomes covered in steam or small drops of water so that you cannot see through
2 [VN] to make sb/sth confused or less clear:
I tried to clear the confusion that was fogging my brain. * The government was trying to fog the real issues before the election.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for fog is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does fog appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — fog appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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