moistening

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun moistening has 1 sense

moistening(n = noun.act) dampening - the act of making something slightly wet; Array

has particulars: basting

is a kind of wetting

Derived forms verb moisten₁, verb moisten₂

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THESAURUS

moistening

affusion, aspergation, aspersion, baptism, bath, bathing, bedewing, dampening, damping, deluge, dewing, drenching, drowning, flooding, hosing, hosing down, humectant, humidification, immersion, inundation, irrigation, irrigational, irriguous, laving, rinsing, soaking, sopping, sparging, spattering, splashing, splattering, spraying, sprinkling, submersion, swashing, watering, wetting

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