moistening

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
moistening
    n 1: the act of making something slightly wet [syn:
         {moistening}, {dampening}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Moisten \Mois"ten\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Moistened}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Moistening}.]
   1. To make damp; to wet in a small degree.
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            A pipe a little moistened on the inside. --Bacon.
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   2. To soften by making moist; to make tender.
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            It moistened not his executioner's heart with any
            pity.                                 --Fuller.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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