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Watering

verb
Word Frequency: 2.0

Definitions

1.verbTo pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).
2.verbTo wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.
3.verbTo provide (animals) with water for drinking.
"I need to go water the cattle."
4.verbTo get or take in water.
"The ship put into port to water."
5.verbTo urinate onto.
6.verbTo dilute.
"Can you water the whisky, please?"
7.verbTo overvalue (securities), especially through deceptive accounting.
8.verbTo fill with or secrete water.
"Chopping onions makes my eyes water."
9.verbTo wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines.
"to water silk"
10.nounAn act of watering, i.e. pouring water on something, or diluting a liquid.
"The plants receive regular waterings."
11.nounThe art or process of giving a wavy, ornamental appearance to something.

Synonyms

water downtearinglacrimationlachrymationirrigationsprinklersprayingspraywettingsprinklingdrinkingweakening

Antonyms

refine

Rhymes With

totteringslaughteringscotteringdaughter hungwotring
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