Synonyms for dew

Grammar : Noun

Spell : doo, dyoo

Phonetic Transcription : du, dyu

Définition of dew

Origin : Old English deaw, from Proto-Germanic *dawwaz (cf. Old Saxon dau, Old Frisian daw, Middle Dutch dau, Old High German tau, German Tau, Old Norse dögg "dew"), from PIE root *dheu- (2) "to flow" (cf. Sanskrit dhavate "flows, runs").

noun moisture

Example sentences :

It looks as if the dew was on it; but the tears will not make it grow again—will they?
Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child

Nonsense must have the dew on it, or it is good for nothing.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

She has faded away like a rainbow—like a drop of dew in the sun.
Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson

Not only all night, but all day, has the dew lain upon its purity.
Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume V (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier

She was walking down a lane, her short skirts brushed by the morning dew.
Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown

She had much to say of dew and roses, turtledoves and the arrows of Cupid.
Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor

Wou'd to God it may prove false, and that it may vanish like the dew of the morning.
Extract from : « The Fall of British Tyranny » by John Leacock

But the duration of their sovereignty was as a summer cloud or morning dew.
Extract from : « Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI » by Various

The night dew on his cheeks was not colder than his tears as he knelt by his father's grave.
Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine

Can we stand still and receive it like the dew, without work?
Extract from : « The Prodigal Returns » by Lilian Staveley

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