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pour sth |
/pɔːr/ to make a liquid or other substance flow from a container in a continuous stream, especially by holding the container at an angle: pour something + adv./prep. Pour the sauce over the pasta. when rain pours down or when it’s pouring (with) rain, rain is falling heavily:It's pouring outside. |
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soaking wet |
/ˈsəʊkɪŋ/ syn: soaked
extremely wet
*It was pouring so, we got soaking wet. *That coat is soaking—take it off. *We arrived home soaking wet.
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drizzle |
rain lightly, with very small drops.
*It was drizzling outside. |
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bitterly cold |
extremely cold *It's bitterly cold today. |
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chilly |
a little to cold |
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mild |
/maɪld/ not very cold, and therefore pleasant the mildest winter since records began |
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heatwave |
a period of unusually hot weather |
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muggy |
syn: humid warm and slightly wet in an unpleasant way |
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mist misty |
syn: fog, foggy a cloud of very small drops of water in the air just above the ground, that make it difficult to see:
*The hills were shrouded in mist.
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frost frosty |
/frɒst/
a weather condition in which the temperature drops below 0° Celsius (= freezing point) so that a thin white layer of ice forms on the ground and other surfaces, especially at nightIt will be a clear night with some ground frost.a sharp/hard/severe frost
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breeze breezy |
a light wind: *a sea breeze *The flowers were gently swaying in the breeze.
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gale |
/ɡeɪl/ an extremely strong wind:
*The gale blew down hundreds of trees.
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