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Wetting
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause to become damp, moist |
| Synonyms: | bathe, damp, dampen, deluge, dip, douse, drench, drown, hose, humidify, imbue, irrigate, moisten, rinse, saturate, soak, sop, souse, splash, spray, sprinkle, steep, wash, water |
| Antonyms: | dehydrate, dry |
| 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: | deluge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inundate with water |
| Synonyms: | douse, drench, drown, engulf, flood, flush, gush, overflow, overrun, overwhelm, pour, sluice, soak, sop, souse, stream, submerge, swamp, wet, whelm |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | douse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drench, extinguish with liquid |
| Synonyms: | blow out, deluge, drown, duck, dunk, immerse, plunge, put out, quench, saturate, slop, slosh, smother, snuff, snuff out, soak, sop, souse, spatter, splash, splatter, squench, steep, submerge, submerse, wet |
| Notes: | douse first meant 'knock, punch, strike' and now means 'to extinguish or wet thoroughly; dowse means to look for water or minerals with a divining rod |
| Antonyms: | dry |
| Main Entry: | moisten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make wet, damp |
| Synonyms: | bathe, bedew, dampen, dip, drench, humidify, lick, mist, moisturize, rain on, rinse, saturate, shower, soak, sog, sop, splash, splatter, spray, sprinkle, squirt, steam, steep, wash, water, water down, waterlog, wet |
| Antonyms: | dry |
| Main Entry: | overflow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pour out, flood |
| Synonyms: | brim, bubble over, cascade, cover, deluge, discharge, drain, drown, engulf, fall over, gush, inundate, irrupt, issue, jet, leak, overbrim, overrun, overtop, pour, run over, rush, shed, shower, slop, slosh, soak, spill, spill over, spout, spray, spurt, squirt, submerge, surge, swamp, water, wave, well, well over, wet, whelm |
| Main Entry: | rinse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wash off, out |
| Synonyms: | bathe, clean, cleanse, dip, flush, soak, splash, wash, water, wet |
| Main Entry: | souse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make very wet |
| Synonyms: | brine, deluge, dip, douse, drench, drown, duck, dunk, immerse, impregnate, marinate, pickle, preserve, seethe, soak, sop, steep, submerge, submerse, waterlog, wet |
| Antonyms: | dehydrate, dry |
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