prewet
soak in
saturation
wash
swab
swob
swamp
dripple
dab
douse
dunk
dip
steep
souse
plunge
whetted
spattering
spatter
splash
splashing
splattering
infusion
extract
hydrojet
exude
blot
drenching
distil
soaking
sousing
instillment
instillation
instilment
moiré
bewet
wetting
fluidlike
sluicingly
wet
biofoul
lap
rewet
exsiccation
whip up
spray-on
undercurrent
fluidify
decant
bepuddle
sluice
transpiration
dampen
inspissate
lip
duck
soak
drip-dry
submerge
float
goober
baby wipe
wetten
splash-land
dampening
sozzle
rainwash
stanch
moistening
swim
presprayed
parch
puddle
befoam
drown
evaporatively
irrigate
bedew
bathe
damp
wetness
plip
dampish
sticky
moist
sprinkle
beath
outdiffuse
drench
sparge
drainboard
besprinkle
get wet
whetted
fluidlike
presprayed
wet
damp
dampish
sticky
moist
sluicingly
evaporatively
saturation
spattering
spatter
splash
splashing
splattering
infusion
extract
souse
drenching
soaking
sousing
instillment
instillation
instilment
wetting
exsiccation
spray-on
transpiration
baby wipe
dampening
moistening
wetness
drainboard
soak
prewet
soak in
wash
swab
swob
swamp
dripple
dab
douse
dunk
dip
steep
souse
plunge
hydrojet
exude
blot
distil
moiré
bewet
wet
biofoul
lap
rewet
whip up
undercurrent
fluidify
decant
bepuddle
sluice
dampen
inspissate
lip
duck
soak
drip-dry
submerge
float
goober
wetten
splash-land
sozzle
rainwash
stanch
swim
parch
puddle
befoam
drown
irrigate
bedew
bathe
plip
sprinkle
beath
outdiffuse
drench
sparge
besprinkle
get wet
splash
verb
- To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- To bear without injury the operation of being washed.
- To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
- To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- To move or erode by the force of water in motion.
- To clean oneself with water.
- To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- To clean with water.
- To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; said of road, a beach, etc.
noun
- The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- A liquid used for washing.
- A shallow body of water.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The blade of an oar.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
- A situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
verb
noun
verb
- To drench or fill with water.
- To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
noun
- A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
- A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment.
verb
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- dip into a liquid while eating
- go down momentarily
- stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
- take a small amount from
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- lower briefly
- appear to move downward
- slope downwards
- dip into a liquid
- place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
- immerse in a disinfectant solution
- plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
- scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
noun
- a depression in an otherwise level surface
- (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
- a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
- tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
- a brief immersion
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
- a brief swim in water
- a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
noun
- the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
- the sound like water splashing
- a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event
- a small quantity of something moist or liquid
- a patch of bright color
- the act of scattering water about haphazardly
verb
- cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force
- walk through mud or mire
- dash a liquid upon or against
- mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered
- make a splashing sound
- soil or stain with a splashed liquid
- strike and dash about in a liquid
noun
- a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)
- the process of extracting certain active properties (as a drug from a plant) by steeping or soaking (usually in water)
- (medicine) the passive introduction of a substance (a fluid or drug or electrolyte) into a vein or between tissues (as by gravitational force)
- the act of infusing or introducing a certain modifying element or quality
noun
- a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)
- a passage selected from a larger work
verb
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- get despite difficulties or obstacles
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
- extract by the process of distillation
- separate (a metal) from an ore
- obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action
- take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
- calculate the root of a number
verb
- to soak up or absorb liquid.
- to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
- To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
- To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
- To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
- To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
- To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
- To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
noun
verb
- To drip or be wet with some liquid.
- To impart (information, etc.) in small quantities; to infuse.
- To make (something, especially spirits such as gin and whisky) by distillation.
- To flow or pass gently or slowly; hence (figuratively) to be manifested gently or gradually.
- To exude (a liquid) in small drops; also, to give off (a vapour) which condenses in small drops.
- To heat (a substance, usually a liquid) so that a vapour is produced, and then to cool the vapour so that it condenses back into a liquid, either to purify the original substance or to obtain one of its components; to subject to distillation.
- Followed by off or out: to expel (a volatile substance) from something by distillation.
- To transform a thing (into something else) by distillation.
- To fall or trickle down in small drops; to exude, to ooze out; also, to come out as a vapour which condenses in small drops.
- To turn into a vapour and then condense back into a liquid; to undergo or be produced by distillation.
- To extract the essence of (something) by, or as if by, distillation; to concentrate, to purify.
verb
- To make or become wet.
- to wet the baby's head
- To kill or seriously injure.
- To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
- To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.
- To cover or impregnate with liquid.
- To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
noun
- Rainy season. (often capitalized)
- A tyre for use in wet weather.
- Rainy weather.
- Liquid or moisture.
- An alcoholic drink.
- One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
- A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.
- A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
adj
- Permitting alcoholic beverages.
- Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
- Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
- Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
- Of a Quaker: liberal with respect to religious observance.
- Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
- Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
- Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
- Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
- Of weather or a time period: rainy.
- Involving assassination or "wet work".
- Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
- Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
- Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
- Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
verb
- To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
- to envelop, enfold
- To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- to wind around
- To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
- To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
- To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
- To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
noun
- A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- One circuit around a race track.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- The act or process of lapping.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
- a place of rearing and fostering
- The upper legs of a seated person.
verb
- To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
- To wash (down or out).
- To flow, pour.
- To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
- To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
noun
- The stream flowing through a floodgate.
- A water gate or floodgate.
- A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
- An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
- An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
verb
- To wash against a surface, lap.
- To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.
- To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
- To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
- (of something inanimate) To touch lightly.
- To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
- To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
- To utter verbally.
- To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
noun
- Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
- One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
- Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
- The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
- A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
- The projecting rim of an open container; a short open spout.
- One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
- The edge of a high spot of land.
- The distinctive petal of the Orchis family.
- Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
verb
- To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
- To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
- To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
- To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- To enter a place for a short moment.
- To evade doing something.
- To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- To bow.
noun
- A long-necked medical urinal for men.
- A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
- One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
- Trousers made of such material.
- A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
- A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
- The flesh of a duck used as food.
- An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
- A term of endearment; pet; darling.
- A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
- A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
- Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
- A cairn used to mark a trail.
- A playing card with the rank of two.
- Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
verb
- To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
- To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
- to engage in sexual activity with penetration but without hip thrusting (usually said of Mormons).
- (slang, boxing) To hit or strike.
- To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
- To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
- To take money from.
- To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
- To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
- To absorb; to drain.
noun
verb
- be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- set afloat
- circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with
- move lightly, as if suspended
- put into the water
- make the surface of level or smooth
- allow (currencies) to fluctuate
- convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation
noun
- the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
- the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public
- a drink with ice cream floating in it
- an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade
- a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco
- something that floats on the surface of water
- an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
noun
verb
verb
- To stop the flow of (water or some other liquid).
- To stop the flow of (blood); to stop (a wound) from bleeding.
- To check or stop, or deter, (an action).
- To make (a building or other structure) watertight or weatherproof.
- To stop the progression of (an illness); also, to alleviate (pain); often followed by of: to relieve (someone's) pain.
- Of bleeding: to stop.
noun
verb
- To apply water or other liquid to; to suffuse or cover with liquid.
- She bathed her eyes with liquid to remove the stinging chemical.
- To sunbathe.
- To cover or surround.
- To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.
- To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath.
- To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim.
noun
adj
adj
- Able or likely to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
- Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.
- Of weather, hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
- Resembling or characteristic of a stick.
- Persistent.
- Potentially difficult to escape from.
- Appearing on all virtual desktops.
- Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
- Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.
verb
noun
adj
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