Moisture
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English
Noun
Moisture (uncountable)- A moderate degree of wetness. --Francis Bacon.
- That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid;liquid in small quantity.
- All my body’s moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. -William Shakespeare
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Adjectives for Moisture
perpetual; heavenly; oppressive; suspicious; refreshing; needed; precipitated; genial; bounteous; dark; filthy; fated; destructive; pleasant; over-much; scant.
Verbs for Moisture
absorb—; boil away—; charge with—; condense into—; dabble in—; deprive of—; diffuse—; dim with—; emit—; exude—; inject —; precipitate—; restrain—; saturate with —; sponge with—; sprinkle with—; suck—; vaporize—; wring xro i—; —dampens; — irrigates; —refreshes; —seeps in.
Thesaurus
Scotch mist, blood rain, chylifaction, chylification, drizzle, evening mist, fall, flow, fluency, fluidity, fluidness, flurry, flux, fluxility, fluxion, gout of rain, juiciness, lactation, lactescence, liquefaction, liquidness, milkiness, mist, misty rain, mizzle, patter, pitter-patter, precipitation, rain, raindrop, rainfall, rainwater, rheuminess, sappiness, serosity, sheet of rain, shower, splatter, sprinkle, succulence, suppuration, unfrozen hydrometeor, wateriness, wet
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