fogging

Pluralfoggings (some meanings)

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of fog. Use it after is, was or keep, or as a noun for the action.

   My glasses keep fogging up when I wear a mask.

   The town is fogging the streets tonight to kill mosquitoes.

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2. 2
   noununcountable

   The act of making something blurry or misty, so it is hard to see through.

   A special spray stops the fogging of your glasses in winter.

   After a hot shower, the fogging of the mirror hides my face.

   Similarmisting, clouding, blurring

3. 3
   nouncountable or uncountable

   Spraying insect poison into the tops of forest trees to collect the small creatures living there.

   The scientists used fogging to find out which insects live high in the rainforest trees.

   After the fogging, the team picked hundreds of beetles off the sheets under the tree.

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