sleet (sl?t)n.1. Precipitation consisting of small ice pellets formed by the freezing of raindrops or of melted snowflakes.2. A mixture of rain and snow or hail.3. A thin icy coating that forms when rain or sleet freezes, as on trees or streets.intr.v. sleet·ed, sleet·ing, sleets To shower sleet.[Middle English slete, probably from Old English *sl?te; akin to German Schlosse, hail.]sleet?y adj.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.sleet (sli?t) n1. (Physical Geography) partly melted falling snow or hail or (esp US) partly frozen rain2. (Physical Geography) chiefly US the thin coat of ice that forms when sleet or rain freezes on cold surfacesvb (Physical Geography) (intr) to fall as sleet[C13: from Germanic; compare Middle Low German sl?ten hail, Middle High German sl?ze, German Schlossen hailstones] ?sleety adjCollins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014sleet (slit) n. 1. precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (disting. from hail). v.i. 2. to send down sleet. 3. to fall as or like sleet. [1250?1300; (n.) Middle English slete; akin to Middle Low German slote, Old High German sl?ze hail] sleet?y, adj. Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.sleet (sl?t) Water that falls to earth in the form of frozen or partially frozen raindrops.The American Heritage® Student Science Dictionary, Second Edition. Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.sleetPast participle: sleetedGerund: sleetingImperativePresentPreteritePresent ContinuousPresent PerfectPast ContinuousPast PerfectFutureFuture PerfectFuture ContinuousPresent Perfect ContinuousFuture Perfect ContinuousPast Perfect ContinuousConditionalPast ConditionalImperativesleetsleetPresentit sleetsPreteriteit sleetedPresent Continuousit is sleetingPresent Perfectit has sleetedPast Continuousit was sleetingPast Perfectit had sleetedFutureit will sleetFuture Perfectit will have sleetedFuture Continuousit will be sleetingPresent Perfect Continuousit has been sleetingFuture Perfect Continuousit will have been sleetingPast Perfect Continuousit had been sleetingConditionalit would sleetPast Conditionalit would have sleetedCollins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011