bruma
mist
Reviewed by: David WestfallCofounder
Low hanging mist that blurs everything you look at
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mnemonic
visual
broom
brush for sweeping
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noun suffix
Bruma means mist and sounds like the English word broom0. Picture someone swinging a broom in the air trying to clear up the mist.
bruma
mist, fog, haze
Thin low cloud sitting close to the ground, soft enough to see through but thick enough to blur what is behind it.
La bruma cubría los campos al amanecerThe mist covered the fields at dawn
No veíamos la carretera por la brumaWe couldn't see the road because of the fog
haze, mists (figurative)
Something remembered or understood only vaguely, as if you were looking at it through mist.
Recuerdo esa noche entre brumasI remember that night through a haze
Su pasado se pierde en la bruma del tiempoHis past is lost in the mists of time