I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blanket of fog/cloud
fog lamp
fog patches
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There'll be a widespread frost with mist and one or two fog patches
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dense
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Almost the entire journey was through the plain, now covered in dense fog .
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I was at a point of crisis, lost, paralysed in the midst of a dense fog .
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As the storm cleared, dense fog came down.
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It will be remembered by old Spitfire pilots for its boggy runway and dense fog .
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He had seen him only in the dense fog .
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There was dust everywhere - the shop was filled with a dense fog of it.
freezing
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It really seems as if some drivers fall prey to a death wish when freezing fog descends.
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Creeping in from both sides was a freezing fog .
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Both pile-ups happened in freezing fog .
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No one survived that. Freezing fog and still they drive at high speed.
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Police blamed the crash on drivers going too fast and too close in freezing fog .
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As she stood waiting for a taxi a speeding car appeared out of the freezing fog .
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Carbon-dioxide ice smoked all around, making a freezing fog that glowed eerily where the rising sun was trapped in its skeins.
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Police and motoring organisations urged drivers to keep their speed down and take extra care as freezing fog gripped the country.
heavy
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In heavy fog she collided with a lorry.
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Like winter almost, except for the heavy fog .
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And once, she was forced to stop because of heavy fog .
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A heavy fog that sometimes blankets the road on fall and winter mornings compounds the danger.
thick
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This lasted for half an hour; however, thick fog and bad bumps kept throwing them off course.
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He was walking home in a thick fog , wondering when the crisp, blue skies of autumn might appear.
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Time allowed 00:22 Read in studio Four people have been injured in an accident in thick fog .
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By the time we reached the island, dusk was falling and a thick fog had rolled in.
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Owing to the thick fog all day long, we had to take extra precautions on the road parts of the walk.
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I locked up the office and walked out of the student center into a thick fog .
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The accident happened last night in thick fog on the M-forty.
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We traveled in thick fog and through whorls of brown blowing mist, which made the woods ghostly.
■ NOUN
bank
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The fog bank was unattainable and rather than surrender, Kennedy opened fire against both vessels with his antique and wholly inadequate guns.
lamp
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A matched pair of front fog lamps can be substituted for headlamps in conditions of fog or falling snow.
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There is a fog lamp in the rear and two up front.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dense fog is making driving conditions difficult on many roads.
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I could just make a dim figure coming towards me in the fog .
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The fog has almost cleared - our plane will be able to take off soon
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Thick fog is making driving conditions hazardous.
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Watch out for patches of fog in low-lying areas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A matched pair of front fog lamps can be substituted for headlamps in conditions of fog or falling snow.
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All there was around her was endless waves of ruby and ice with the fog crawling beneath her feet.
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And the fog lighting up around him.
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He sat and watched the fog lift and reveal the colorless lake beneath, as blank as paper this morning.
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It exercised no power over its cloak of fog , it gives no direction.
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John Wade shook his head and listened to the fog .
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The fog was so thick that it had obscured the land beneath them.
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The grown-ups were already packing their cars in the hope of driving beyond the fog .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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My glasses fogged up as soon as I stepped outside.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All this morning I been waiting for them to fog us in again.
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However, his scanner was fogged by emanations from the aspect of the hydra that was alive, almost masking the trace.
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Rain was hissing on the roof of the car wreck, fogging the scene still further.
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They are also fogged by the dumb idea that we are just doing some one else a favour.