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NOUN:
  1. Condensed water vapor in cloudlike masses lying close to the ground and limiting visibility.
    1. An obscuring haze, as of atmospheric dust or smoke.
    2. A mist or film clouding a surface, as of a window, lens, or mirror.
  3. A cloud of vaporized liquid, especially a chemical spray used in fighting fires.
    1. A state of mental vagueness or bewilderment.
    2. Something that obscures or conceals; a haze: shrouded their actions in a fog of disinformation.
  5. A blur on a developed photographic image.
VERB:
fogged, fog·ging, fogs
VERB:
tr.
  1. To cover or envelop with or as if with fog.
  2. To cause to be obscured; cloud.
  3. To make vague, hazy, or confused: a memory that had been fogged by time.
  4. To obscure or dim (a photographic image).
VERB:
intr.
  1. To be covered with or as if with fog.
  2. To be blurred, clouded, or obscured: My glasses fogged in the warm air.
  3. To be dimmed or obscured. Used of a photographic image.
ETYMOLOGY:
Perhaps of Scandinavian origin

OTHER FORMS:
fogger(Noun)
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