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Definition of Defog
1. Verb. Free from mist. "Demist the car windows"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Entails: Heat, Heat Up
Derivative terms: Demister
Definition of Defog
1. Verb. to remove the moisture or fog from. ¹
2. Verb. (informal) to make intelligible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Defog
1. to remove fog from [v -FOGGED, -FOGGING, -FOGS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defog
Literary usage of Defog
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"defog the student of geography and of volumes of voyages; in others", Defoe the
minute observer and reporter/The book is a product that might have been ..."
2. The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends by Robert Louis Stevenson, Sidney Colvin (1899)
"... by one of his greatest admirers, Sir E. Burne Jones, on some particular analogy,
I forget what, between a passage of defog and one in Treasure Island. ..."
3. Wild Winds: Adventures in the Highest Andes by Ed Darack (2001)
"When I finished the traverse 20 minutes lacer, I sac down by a big rock to defog
my glasses, then looked up to witness a cloud slamming into the ..."
4. White House Conference on Environmental Technology (1994): Working Papers (2000)
"The JSET strategy document needs to be written for the layman, not the career
government bureaucrat. There is a need to "defog" the prose. ..."
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