Word Meanings - MOISTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make damp; to wet in a small degree. A pipe a little moistened on the inside. Bacon. 2. To soften by making moist; to make tender. It moistened not his executioner's heart with any pity. Fuller.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MOISTEN)

• Imbrue
• Wet
• moisten
• soak
• drench
• Soak
• steep
• macerate
• submerge

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MOISTEN)

• Air
• dry
• ventilate
• fan
• sun
• aridity
• exsiccate

Related words: (words related to MOISTEN)

• ARIDITY
  1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.
• VENTILATE
  brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a
• STEEPLE
  A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles
• EXSICCATE
  To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne.
• STEEPLY
  In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.
• STEEP-DOWN
  Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak.
• IMBRUEMENT
  The act of imbruing or state of being imbrued.
• MOISTENER
  One who, or that which, moistens. Johnson.
• SUBMERGENCE
  The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; submersion.
• DRENCHER
  1. One who, or that which, west or steeps. 2. One who administers a drench.
• STEEPLE-CROWNED
  1. Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building. 2. Having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown. This grave, beared, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor. Hawthorne.
• STEEPEN
  To become steep or steeper. As the way steepened . . . I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path. H. Miller.
• STEEPER
  A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped.
• MACERATE
  weaken, enervate; cf. Gr. 1. To make lean; to cause to waste away. Harvey. 2. To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify. Baker. 3. To soften by steeping in a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts
• MACERATER
  One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.
• DRENCH
  1. To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic. As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink."
• STEEPNESS
  1. Quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof. 2. Height; loftiness. Chapman.
• STEEPINESS
  Steepness. Howell.
• STEEP
  Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer.
• MOISTEN
  1. To make damp; to wet in a small degree. A pipe a little moistened on the inside. Bacon. 2. To soften by making moist; to make tender. It moistened not his executioner's heart with any pity. Fuller.
• INDRENCH
  To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown. Shak.
• EMACERATE
  To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate. Bullokar.
• HORSE-DRENCH
  1. A dose of physic for a horse. Shak. 2. The appliance by which the dose is administred.
• BEDRENCH
  To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak. Shak.