She put on some lip balm to moisten her lips.
Source: wiktionary
Moisten
//ˈmɔɪsən//
Synonyms for "moisten" (39 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (19)
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9 entriesderived from
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2 entriesTranslations
65 translations across 28 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- թրջել verb (to make moist)
- թրջվել verb (to become moist)
Bulgarian
2 entries- навлажнявам verb (to make moist)
- навлажнявам се verb (to become moist)
Catalan
1 entries- humectar verb (to make moist)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 使湿润 verb (to make moist)
Czech
3 entries- navlhčit verb (to make moist)
- vlhnout verb (to become moist)
- zvlhnout verb (to become moist)
Egyptian
1 entries- E9-w-H-mw-nw-A24 verb (to make moist)
Esperanto
1 entries- malsekigi verb (to make moist)
Finnish
2 entries- kostua verb (to become moist)
- kostuttaa verb (to make moist)
French
3 entries- humecter verb (to make moist)
- humidifier verb (to make moist)
- mouiller verb (to become moist)
Galician
4 entries- humedecer verb (to make moist)
- humedecer verb (to become moist)
- mollar verb (to make moist)
- mollar verb (to become moist)
German
3 entries- anfeuchten verb (to make moist)
- befeuchten verb (to make moist)
- feucht werden verb (to become moist)
Ido
2 entries- arozetar verb (to make moist)
- humideskar verb (to become moist)
Ingrian
1 entries- nahistua verb (to become moist)
Italian
1 entries- inumidire verb (to make moist)
Korean
2 entries- 적시다 verb (to make moist)
- 젖다 verb (to become moist)
Latin
3 entries- imbuō verb (to make moist)
- lavo verb (to make moist)
- madefacio verb (to make moist)
Middle English
1 entries- moisten verb (to make moist)
Māori
3 entries- takawai verb (to make moist)
- whakamākū verb (to make moist)
- whakamākūkū verb (to make moist)
Old French
1 entries- amoistir verb (to make moist)
Persian
2 entries- خیساندن verb (to become moist)
- خیسیدن verb (to make moist)
Portuguese
4 entries- humedecer verb (to make moist)
- humidecer verb (to make moist)
- molhar verb (to make moist)
- umedecer verb (to make moist)
Quechua
2 entries- ch'aranchay verb (to make moist)
- huq'uchay verb (to make moist)
Romanian
3 entries- muia verb (to make moist)
- uda verb (to make moist)
- umezi verb (to make moist)
Russian
4 entries- увлажни́ть verb (to make moist)
- увлажни́ться verb (to become moist)
- увлажня́ть verb (to make moist)
- увлажня́ться verb (to become moist)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- vlažiti verb (to make moist)
- вла̏жити verb (to make moist)
Slovene
1 entries- vlážiti verb (to make moist)
Spanish
4 entries- humectar verb (to make moist)
- humectarse verb (to become moist)
- humedecer verb (to make moist)
- humedecerse verb (to become moist)
Ukrainian
4 entries- зволо́жити verb (to make moist)
- зволо́житися verb (to become moist)
- зволо́жувати verb (to make moist)
- зволо́жуватися verb (to become moist)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
His eyes began to moisten as he held back tears.
Source: wiktionary
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