rewetting

Definition of rewettingnext
present participle of rewet

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rewetting
Verb
  • Raw meat was frozen in trash bags and an employee washed dishes without rinsing them.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 2 Apr. 2026
  • An employee was washing and rinsing dishes.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 27 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Step two is flushing the gutters with water.
    Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Like any other self-flushing litter box, this one needs to be connected to both a water source and a drain.
    Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 30 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • On the side, there’s a cup of mushroom stock fortified with soy sauce, molasses, rosemary and a touch of cayenne pepper for dunking.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • San Antonio led by as many as 28 during a dominant first-half performance that featured a highlight-worthy play with Castle dunking off a behind-the-back pass from Wembanyama.
    ABC News, ABC News, 28 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The dam was built to control floods from the Colorado River while also irrigating the Southwest.
    Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Make sure plants are well watered going into fall and winter, and check soil moisture regularly over winter, irrigating as needed to maintain moist, but not wet, soil.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 5 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Avoid puddling or saturating the soil.
    David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 3 Apr. 2026
  • But there’s a difference between accepting the legality of gambling and actively promoting it, whether that’s through opening sportsbooks at stadiums like Wrigley Field or saturating game broadcasts with gambling advertisements.
    Michael Delayo, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The common factor in all of this is the Federal Reserve (albeit acting in very good faith in response to successive defense, financial and health crises) increased the amount of money sloshing around relative to the size of the economy to unprecedented levels.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Meantime, outflows both from both software and crypto (an asset class most correlated with unprofitable tech stocks) grew excessive until the savage software/bitcoin selloff hit an extreme Thursday, when money came sloshing in to catch the falling knives.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 9 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Females produce large gametes and our bodies are organized around gestation and birth; males have small gametes and their bodies are organized around impregnating.
    Paisley Currah, The New York Review of Books, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Sealing granite surfaces with an impregnating sealer supplies protection against stains.
    Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The figures, which are based on more than 500,000 weekly transactions covered by WorldACD’s data, indicate that global tonnages were relatively stable compared with the previous week, with capacity dipping 1 percent.
    Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • More Americans are also dipping into retirement savings to prop up their spending, the report showed.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
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“Rewetting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rewetting. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.

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