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He eats only small pieces of bread, moistened by his sisters.

This is a process by which beans are moistened and left in the sun to start growing into plants.

At once cover the mouth of the tube with a filter-paper cap moistened with saturated aqueous solution of silver nitrate (1:1).

He turned pages with a moistened thumb, took a pencil out of his pocket, passed both to the passengers of the roadster.

I have watched you change almost from death to life, with eyes that moistened with their own eagerness and deep affection.

As the fillers are usually dry they must be moistened before casing or subjected to a very strong pressure.

Jacob moistened his dry lips, and tried twice to speak before a sound came.

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On this page you'll find 75 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to moistened, such as: aqueous, clammy, dank, dewy, drenched, and dripping.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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