bewater

present singular third person bewaters · participle present bewatering · participle past bewatered · past bewatered

1. transitiveTo water about or all over; cover, douse, or fill with water; make wet; water; hydrate.

   For ten days my wife and I fed this mile, every two hours by day, and three by night, wi'h drops of cow's milk, sugared and bewatered.

   1906, Country life

   2 more examples

   A piece of brass may as easily melt, or a flint bewater itself, as the heart of man, by any innate power of its own, resolve itself into a penitential humiliation.

   1871, Robert South, Sermons preached upon several occasions

   [...] unto my chamber aloft now will I go And lie on the bed that knoweth the wailing of my woe, With many a tear bewatered since the day Odysseus fared With Atreus' sons to Ilios.

   1912, William Morris, May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris

   Synonyms: soak