| Main Entry: | water |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dampen; put water in |
Synonyms: |
baptize, bathe, damp, dilute, doctor, douse, drench, drool, flood, hose, imbue, inundate, irrigate, moisten, saturate, soak, sodden, souse, spatter, spray, sprinkle, steep, thin, wash, weaken, wet |
Antonyms: |
dehydrate, dry |
| Main Entry: | water |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
Related
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: | 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 |
| 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: | drool |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | salivate |
Synonyms: |
dribble, drivel, froth, ooze, run, slabber, slaver, slobber, spit, water, water at the mouth |
| 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 |