Definitions for fog

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Spelling: [fog, fawg]

IPA: /fɒg, fɔg/

Fog is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 10 anagrams from letters in fog (fgo).

Definitions for fog

noun

1. a cloudlike mass or layer of minute water droplets or ice crystals near the surface of the earth, appreciably reducing visibility. Compare ice fog, mist, smog.
2. any darkened state of the atmosphere, or the diffused substance that causes it.
3. a state of mental confusion or unawareness; daze; stupor:
4. Photography. a hazy effect on a developed negative or positive, caused by light other than that forming the image, by improper handling during development, or by the use of excessively old film.
5. Physical Chemistry. a mixture consisting of liquid particles dispersed in a gaseous medium.
6. a second growth of grass, as after mowing.
7. long grass left standing in fields during the winter.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover or envelop with or as if with fog:
2. to confuse or obscure:
3. to bewilder or perplex:
4. Photography. to produce fog on (a negative or positive).

verb (used without object)

1. to become enveloped or obscured with or as if with fog.
2. Photography. (of a negative or positive) to become affected by fog.

Origin of fog

1535-45; perhaps by back formation from foggy. See fog²

Examples for fog

A fog of conspiracy—of logic against logic, as Orwell put it—has descended on every major event in the war.

Meantime a white film of fog spread down the bay from the northward.

The frolic with the child seemed to have blown away a fog from between them.

Major Jelles looked meditatively at me, through his fog of smoke.

I was just myself again—the person I was meant to be, without the fog.

“Our main job is to come in there, cut through the fog of war, and establish what has happened,” said Solvang.

At Henley, the other vaporium, the crew lying around on settees and filling the room with fog brought back Dutch flashbacks.

So we changed that into a fog machine blast right before I go on.

Then he asked me, still at the window, "What's that fog doing now?"

He had seen something like a heavy flash of lightning in the fog.