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Noun: watering  wo-tu-ring
  1. Shedding tears
    - lacrimation, lachrymation, tearing
     
  2. Wetting with water
    "the lawn needs a great deal of watering"
Verb: water  wo-tu(r)
  1. Supply with water, as with channels, ditches or streams
    "Water the fields";
    - irrigate
     
  2. Provide with water
    "We watered the buffalo"
     
  3. Secrete or form water, as tears or saliva
    "My mouth watered at the prospect of a good dinner"; "His eyes watered"
     
  4. Fill with tears
    "His eyes were watering"

Derived forms: waterings

Type of: activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process, fill, fill up, furnish, provide, release, render, secrete, supply, wet, wetting

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