Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
moisten .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of making something slightly wet
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nature: Most often these are called cooling or heating, but the terms moistening, relaxing and energizing are used.
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Such use of saliva is no more to be deprecated than its application in a hundred other ways, such as moistening the fingers to turn a leaf, of "licking" one's fingers after eating candy.
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Keep adding, tasting the whole time, moistening with the reserve tomato juice, until you have a mixture about the consistency of a loose tapenade.
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"A Mexican with a knife, miss," he answered, moistening his parched lips and clearing hip throat.
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Is this moistening your hankies, PopWatchers, or are you writing “no thanks” to Dear John?
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"You wouldn't want to lose weight the way I did," he said, his eyes moistening.
Cometh the Ryder Cup moment, cometh captain Colin Montgomerie
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First just a moistening, but then pouring out as my whole body sobbed in a great release of pent-up emotion.
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This moistening of the raw-hide he knew would tend to make it stretch, and, without apparent effort, he endeavored to stretch it more and more.
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First just a moistening, but then pouring out as my whole body sobbed in a great release of pent-up emotion.
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She hesitated, moistening her frightened lips with her tongue, then braved her eyes to his and proceeded.
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