I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sea mist
the morning sun/light/mist
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the warmth of the morning sun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
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Outlook for tomorrow and Sunday: Mainly dry and mild, with sunny intervals after clearance of any early mist or fog.
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Soon the early mist would dampen them along the horizon, then put them out one by one.
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There was an early morning mist rising from the fens.
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Jekub was twenty feet away, vibrating gently in the early morning mist .
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The early mist cleared to a fine October day, and there was a little wind from the southwest.
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Strands of early morning mist still clung to the hollows as the sun tried to break through the patchy cloudscape.
fine
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We tie up the boats and wade up the creek towards it, enveloped in a wind of fine mist .
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It was, in fact, a fine mist of spray still being ripped from the sea by the gale.
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Tritium has a higher freezing point than water and so could condense into a fine mist indistinguishable from normal fog.
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With each whap, Louise was sprayed with a fine salt mist .
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The fine mist at the edges of the room seemed to be drifting closer, enveloping her in its clinging tendrils.
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Sometimes a fine and fluid mist filled the forest.
grey
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There was only chill grey mist , and sooty buildings vanishing some two floors up.
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Through this grey mist came fluttering a small shore bird.
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The spell was broken one day by a particularly stubborn fisherman who used clubs to beat his way through the grey mist .
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The biting wind drove the snow before it, so that the whole dale seemed to be lost in a grey mist .
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Her family and friends were obscured by a grey mist and the aisle had been never-ending.
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The sky was grey , and mist clung to the tops of the cliffs.
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The water was covered with a film of ice whilst above it a grey mist boiled.
heavy
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She woke in the early dawn and peered around her blearily through the heavy mist that filled the wood.
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The sun was coming up, or had already come up, and the heavy mists wore a pearlescent glow.
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At 03.50 on the first day of the attack, 12 infantry divisions went forward in heavy mist .
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The heavy mist rarely lifted but closed in like a cold, clinging cloud around us.
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A heavy mist had fallen, drowning the countryside in its white vapour and making Royston Manor even more sinister.
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On the high ground, the soldiers were shrouded in a heavy mist , suiting their purpose perfectly.
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Next morning a heavy mist had blown in, covering the land with a blanket of gloomy silence.
red
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Then the red mists cleared and she sank to her knees, picking up the pieces, moaning softly.
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Violence suddenly seemed to colour the air between them, a red mist igniting.
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She tried to blink the red mist from her eyes, failed, and toppled backwards out of the image field.
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The scenes surge back overlaid with a red mist not there when I dreamed.
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He saw everything through a red mist .
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A towering red mist hung over them where the brick of the villages was pulverized by the bombardment.
swirling
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It was as if Lucie's pride had been purged away by standing in that vat of swirling morning mist .
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They moved on, down the cathedral-like space, soaring columns that dwarfed them disappearing into the swirling mist .
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Or was it just the swirling mist playing tricks on his eyes?
thick
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Then, as he climbed higher, a thick , damp mist came down and covered everything.
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A thick mist lay on the lake, giving it a look of vastness.
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But each of you, in his own way, is thick in that mist .
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There was a thick mist lying on the track which ran through flat, tedious marshland.
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Unfortunately, the thick mist made their work more difficult.
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A thick sea mist had rolled in, obscuring most of the priory buildings.
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Although thick mist persisted so air reconnaissance was ineffective, Plumer's initial thrust was made at 05.40 on 20 September.
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The valley below the adventurers is hidden by a layer of thick mist that seems almost to glow.
white
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A white mist obscured the view, gave the high-rise buildings a ghostly look.
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Within moments of setting off, she was lost from view, swallowed up in the white mist .
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It was black under the trees and a white mist of dislodged snow hung close to the ground.
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Delgard breathed in the frosty air and expelled a white mist as if it were an escaping soul.
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There was low cloud, white drifts of mist close down on the ice.
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When they reached the farm Cara looked up and to her pleasure observed a white mist obscuring the top of the fells.
■ NOUN
morning
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The rhetoric of internationalism faded like morning mist before the sun of reality.
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Presently the harbor itself became visible across the central Oahu plain, a film of morning mist hovering over it.
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It was as if Lucie's pride had been purged away by standing in that vat of swirling morning mist .
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He could still envision Grover, the morning mist , the taxi door slamming.
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The empire was dissolving like a morning mist .
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Then she saw him look across at her and smile, and all her uncertainties vanished like morning mist before the sun.
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There were still some drops on the leaves from the morning mist .
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The village was lit by a swathe of sunlight which cut through the morning mist .
sea
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But then the ship idled there for hours, in its own sea mist of impatience and anxiety.
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A thick sea mist had rolled in, obscuring most of the priory buildings.
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The air is sticky with a varnish of sea mist .
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A sea mist far out kept the lighthouse foghorn blaring.
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It's very versatile, and will keep out the sea mist on our holiday in Cornwall in a few weeks.
■ VERB
disappear
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We set off, with our rucksacks, and half way up the farmhouse had disappeared into the mist .
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They appeared and disappeared in the mist and were too far away to have seen us.
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They moved on, down the cathedral-like space, soaring columns that dwarfed them disappearing into the swirling mist .
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The party disappeared into the mists of history after 1860.
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Without even waiting to see her fall he turned and ran, disappearing into the mist .
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My knees appeared and disappeared in the mists rising from the tub.
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I looked down; the hooves seemed to be disappearing into a little mist which rose up everywhere around us.
lose
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All of them with a tap root deep in history and branches lost in mysterious mist .
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And, for some reason lost in the mists of time, we need to do that.
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The biting wind drove the snow before it, so that the whole dale seemed to be lost in a grey mist .
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What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem.
rise
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Instead, because I know it is cool dampness on rising mists through brilliant foliage, it looks very soothing and friendly.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
veil of mist/cloud/smoke etc
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The moon was hidden under a veil of clouds, and there was not a breath of wind.
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Whose light retires behind its veil of cloud.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A light mist lay in the valley.
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A murky mist of smog obscured the view of the city.
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From Primrose Hill, London looked like a ruined city shrouded in mist .
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The mist along the river banks had gone by mid morning.
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Within seconds he had completely vanished in the mist .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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About half way through the fifty-kilometer journey, the Dolomites suddenly appeared as the mist lifted.
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As Jack took a step towards the figure the mist suddenly cleared and the figure disappeared.
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Daybreak A little mist hangs above the pond, which is still save for a single mallard paddling slowly back and forth.
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Genius is Wordsworth peering down from Snowdon in the mist .
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It was black under the trees and a white mist of dislodged snow hung close to the ground.
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Junior standing ready in a glowing shroud of mist .
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The mist had curdled to a fog which muffled the street-lamps and reduced visibility to thirty or forty yards.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
over
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There seemed to be something happening; his vision was misting over .
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His vision misted over and he could no longer see.
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Her head sank on to her chin and a kind of blank look misted over her eyes.
up
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I n the United States the hot breath of corruption is misting up the mirror of democratic politics.
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Placing the Optima beside the bed, that night Douglas's own watch misted up and stopped!
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Our speed built up rapidly and the inside of my cockpit started to mist up.
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I blow out so hard that I mist up the windscreen.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mist the plant daily to keep it moist.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Cafe curtains misted the kitchen-side windows.
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His breath misted the cold glass and he turned away, indifferent to others' arguments.
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I n the United States the hot breath of corruption is misting up the mirror of democratic politics.
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Sweat from the washing-up misted her forehead and nose.