Misted vs Wisted - What's the difference?
misted | wisted |
(mist)
(uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.
(countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.
(figurative) Anything that dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.
* Dryden
To form mist.
To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
To cover with a mist.
(of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
(wist)
(archaic) (wit)
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As verbs the difference between misted and wisted
is that misted is past tense of mist while wisted is past tense of wist.misted
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(head)Anagrams
* * *mist
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(wikipedia mist)Noun
- It was difficult to see through the morning mist .
- There was an oily mist on the lens .
- His passion cast a mist before his sense.
Derived terms
* misty * mists of time * red mistVerb
(en verb)- It's misting this morning.
- I mist my tropical plants every morning.
- The lens was misted .
- (Shakespeare)
- My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.
Derived terms
* mist overAnagrams
* * ----wisted
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*wist
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Etymology 1
Past indicative of (m): from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Compare (m).Verb
(head)- And lang ere witless Jeanie wist , / Her heart was tint, her peace was stown!