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Fog v. t. (Agric.) To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.

Fog v. t. (past & past part. fogged; pres. part. fogging)

To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.

(Photog.) To render semiopaque or cloudy, as a negative film, by exposure to stray light, too long an exposure to the developer, etc.

Fog v. i. To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog. (Obs.) "Where wouldst thou fog to get a fee?"

Fog v. i. (Photog.) To show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.

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Etymology of 'Fogged'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fogged" Quotes from Famous Books

... said Baynes. "I'll knock at the window." He stepped across the grass plot and tapped with his hand on the pane. Through the fogged glass I dimly saw a man spring up from a chair beside the fire, and heard a sharp cry from within the room. An instant later a white-faced, hard-breathing policeman had opened the door, the candle wavering ...

— The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge • Arthur Conan Doyle

... "I am getting fogged!" he said, "and cannot make it out. Was it pure accident? Surely something must have happened ...

— Somehow Good • William de Morgan

... curling-stone from one side of the asphalt to the other, but also because I did not wish undue attention attracted to our course. The windows in front of me and to the right and left were covered with streaks of water and fogged with the smoke of my cigarettes which, in my pleasurable excitement, I smoked one after the other; therefore everything outside—the spots of light which lengthened into streaks, the shadows, the other vehicles, the glaring fronts of theatres in Federal ...

— The Blue Wall - A Story of Strangeness and Struggle • Richard Washburn Child