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[waw-terz, wot-erz] 
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| Main Entry: |
water
[waw-ter, wot-er]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pure liquid hydrogen and oxygen |
| Synonyms: | Adam's ale, H2O, aqua, aqua pura, drink, rain, rainwater, saliva, tears |
| Main Entry: | water |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
adlittoral, aquatic, aqueous, balneal, brashy, cloacal, diluent, diluted, drenching, eupotamic, grandinous, hydrodynamic, hyetal, interlacustrine, lacuscular, lacustrine, lenitic, lentic, limnal, lymphate, lymphatic, moiré, phreatic, pluvial, pluvious, rainy, showery, stagnicolous, stillicidous, subriguous, undigenous, vadose, watery, weak, wet
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| Concept: | Water. |
| Category: | 2. Fluid matter; specific fluids |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
water; serum, serosity; lymph; rheum; diluent; agua, aqua, pani., dilution, maceration, lotion; washing; immersion, humectation, infiltration, spargefaction, affusion, irrigation, douche, balneation, bath., deluge (water in motion); high water, flood tide.
-verbs
be watery; reek., add water, water, wet; moisten; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle.
-adjectives
watery, aqueous, aquatic, hydrous, lymphatic; balneal, diluent; drenching; diluted; weak; wet (moist).
-phrases
the waters are out.
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| Main Entry: | bathe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wash with water and, usually, soap |
| Synonyms: | bath, clean, cleanse, dip, douse, dunk, flood, hose, imbathe, imbue, immerse, moisten, rinse, scour, scrub, shower, soak, soap, sponge, steep, submerge, suffuse, tub, water, wet |
| Notes: | bath (noun) is the act of soaking or cleansing the body while bathe (verb) is to take a bath |
| Antonyms: | dirty |
| Main Entry: | boot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heavy, often tall, shoe |
| Synonyms: | brogan, footwear, galoshes, mukluk, oxford, snow shoes, waders, waters |
| Main Entry: | canal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | waterway |
| Synonyms: | aqueduct, bottleneck, channel, choke point, conduit, course, cove, ditch, duct, estuary, firth, trench, water, watercourse |
| Main Entry: | dampen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make wet |
| Synonyms: | bedew, besprinkle, dabble, humidify, moisten, rinse, spray, sprinkle, water, wet |
| Antonyms: | dry |
| Main Entry: | dilute |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make thinner; weaken |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, alter, attenuate, cook, cut, decrease, deliquesce, diffuse, diminish, doctor up, doctor*, irrigate, lace, lessen, liquefy, mitigate, mix, moderate, modify, needle, phony up, plant, qualify, reduce, shave, spike, temper, water, water down |
| Antonyms: | concentrate, strengthen, thicken |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put into liquid |
| Synonyms: | baptize, bathe, douse, drench, duck, dunk, immerse, irrigate, lave, lower, moisten, pitch, plunge, rinse, slop, slosh, soak, souse, splash, steep, submerge, submerse, wash, water, wet |
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