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Fog

noun

Droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground.

An atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance. Synonyms: fogginess, murk, murkiness.

Confusion characterized by lack of clarity. Synonyms: daze, haze.

verb

(past & past part. fogged; pres. part. fogging)

Make less visible or unclear. Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure. "The big elm tree obscures our view of the valley"

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"Fog" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the Romish development in religion; as, for instance, the fathers Gregory, Augustine, and Jerome, meditating on the immaculate conception of the Virgin. Think of a painter employing all his powers in representing such a fog bank! ...

— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... revelation of her hitherto concealed identity, a confession which had called into being all his old-time, boyish infatuation for her. To prevent possible developments of this passion for a portionless girl from interfering with his career, she had left him, to lose herself in the fog. If her present situation were a misfortune, it had arisen from her abnormal, and, as it had turned out, mischievous consideration for his welfare. But scruples of the nature which she had displayed were assuredly numbered amongst the virtues, and ...

— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte

... turned in, and in the morning when I woke up there was Bill sitting alongside of me, and looking about as lively as the fighting kangaroo in London in fog time. He had a black eye and eighteen pence. He'd been taking down some ...

— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson

... fogged in the perforator, a thing that doesn't happen once in a thousand years. But it caught us just as we sent the company down to Delaware Water Gap. A whole ten days' work went into the developer at once. Neither of the camera men caught the fog in their tests because it came in the middle of the rolls. Everything had to be ...

— The Film Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve

... he told himself that some degree of emptiness was natural; first because the snow-storm was even dangerously deep, and secondly because it was Sunday. And at the very word Sunday he bit his lip; the word was henceforth for hire like some indecent pun. Under the white fog of snow high up in the heaven the whole atmosphere of the city was turned to a very queer kind of green twilight, as of men under the sea. The sealed and sullen sunset behind the dark dome of St. Paul's had in it smoky and sinister colours—colours of sickly green, dead red ...

— The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare • G. K. Chesterton

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