moisten - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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From moist + -en.

• IPA(key): /ˈmɔɪsən/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪsən

moisten (third-person singular simple present moistens, present participle moistening, simple past and past participle moistened)

1. (transitive) To make moist or moister.
   She put on some lip balm to moisten her lips.
2. (intransitive) To become moist or moister.
   His eyes began to moisten as he held back tears.

• bemoisten
• enmoisten
• moistenable
• moistener
• overmoisten
• premoisten
• premoistened
• remoisten
• unmoistened

to make moist

• Armenian: թրջել (hy) (tʻrǰel)
• Bulgarian: навлажнявам (bg) (navlažnjavam)
• Catalan: humectar (ca)
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 使湿润
• Czech: navlhčit
• Egyptian: (jwḥ)
• Esperanto: malsekigi
• Finnish: kostuttaa (fi)
• French: humidifier (fr), humecter (fr)
  Old French: amoistir
• Galician: mollar (gl), humedecer (gl)
• German: anfeuchten (de), befeuchten (de)
• Ido: arozetar (io)
• Italian: inumidire (it)
• Korean: 적시다 (ko) (jeoksida)
• Latin: madefacio, lavo (la), imbuō, arrōrō
• Māori: takawai, whakamākū, whakamākūkū
• Middle English: moisten
• Persian: خیسیدن sg (xīsīdan)
• Portuguese: humedecer (pt), umedecer (pt), humidecer, molhar (pt)
• Quechua: ch'aranchay, huq'uchay
• Romanian: uda (ro), umezi (ro), muia (ro)
• Russian: увлажня́ть (ru) (uvlažnjátʹ), увлажни́ть (ru) (uvlažnítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: вла̏жити impf, vlažiti (sh) impf
• Slovene: vlážiti
• Spanish: humedecer (es), mojar (es), humectar (es)
• Ukrainian: зволо́жувати impf (zvolóžuvaty), зволо́жити pf (zvolóžyty)

to become moist

• Armenian: թրջվել (hy) (tʻrǰvel)

• Bulgarian: навлажнявам се (navlažnjavam se)

• Czech: vlhnout, zvlhnout

• Finnish: kostua (fi)

• French: mouiller (fr)

• Galician: mollar (gl), humedecer (gl)

• German: feucht werden

• Ido: humideskar (io)

• Ingrian: nahistua

• Korean: 젖다 (ko) (jeotda)

• Persian: خیساندن (fa) (xīsāndan)

• Russian: увлажня́ться (ru) (uvlažnjátʹsja), увлажни́ться (ru) (uvlažnítʹsja)

• Spanish: humedecerse, mojarse, humectarse (es)

• Ukrainian: зволо́жуватися impf (zvolóžuvatysja), зволо́житися pf (zvolóžytysja)

• tomines, mistone, mestino, Monties, misnote, Simonet, sentimo

• moisien

moisten

1. genitive plural of moinen

• monesti, moniste
• moiste, moystyn, moysten, moyst, mooysten

From moiste +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

• IPA(key): /ˈmɔi̯stən/

moisten

1. to moisten (make moister)
2. to supply or provide with moisture.
3. (rare) to invigorate; to enliven.
4. (rare) to become moist or moister.

• English: moist (obsolete as a verb)
• “moisten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.