bewater

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Verb

bewater (bewaters, present participle bewatering; past and past participle bewatered)

1. (transitive) To water about or all over; cover, douse, or fill with water; make wet; water; hydrate.
   • 1906, Country life:

     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.

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

     [...] 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.

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