Sleet

Noun

 * 1) Rain which freezes before reaching the ground.
 * 2)  A mixture of rain and snow.

Synonyms

 * ice pellets
 * slush

Verb

 * 1)  To be in a state in which sleet is falling.
 * I won't bother going out until it's stopped sleeting.

Adjectives for Sleet
slapping; driving; eddying; arrowy; stimulated; shiny; dangerous.

Verbs for Sleet
brave—; encounter—; melt—; precipitate ——; —assails; —bites; —blasts; —blights; ——devastates; —endangers; —glazes; —impairs; —imperils; —nips; —pelts; —penetrates; —pierces; —pinches; —rattles on; —ravages; —thaws.

Thesaurus
Dry Ice, berg, calf, cryosphere, firn, floe, frazil, frost, frozen water, glaciation, glacier, glacieret, glaze, glazed frost, granular snow, ground ice, growler, hail, ice, ice banner, ice barrier, ice belt, ice cave, ice cubes, ice dike, ice field, ice floe, ice foot, ice front, ice island, ice needle, ice over, ice pack, ice pinnacle, ice raft, ice sheet, ice up, iceberg, icefall, icequake, icicle, jokul, lolly, neve, nieve penitente, pack ice, serac, shelf ice, slob, sludge, snow, snow ice, snow in, snow under, snowberg

Etymology
According to Skeat, the author of Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, it is from origin - slydda: (whence Danish slud:); akin to Middle High German sloz (German Schloße:).

Noun

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: aiguaneu
 * Chinese:
 * Simplified: 冻雨, 霰
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: jäätävä sade
 * French:
 * German: Eisregen
 * Icelandic: ískorn, ísing
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 霙 (みぞれ, mizore)
 * Persian: برف‌باران
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: мокрый снег
 * Scottish Gaelic: flin
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene: sodra
 * Spanish: aguanieve


 * Danish:
 * Dutch: smeltende sneeuw
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Hungarian: havaseső
 * Icelandic:, kraparigning, bleytukafald
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: deszcz ze śniegiem

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Icelandic: setja niður slyddu,
 * Norwegian: sluddvær

Anagrams

 * leets
 * steel
 * stele
 * teles

Noun

 * 1) wear

Synonyms

 * slijtage

Anagrams

 * leest, slete, steel, stele