Dew

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  • noun. Water droplets condensed from the air, usually at night, onto cool surfaces.
  • noun. Something moist, fresh, pure, or renewing.
  • noun. Moisture, as in the form of tears or perspiration, that appears in small drops.
  • transitive verb. To wet with or as if with dew.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To wet with or as if with dew; moisten; bedew.
  • An obsolete spelling of due.
  • noun. The aqueous vapor which is deposited from the atmosphere by condensation, especially during the night, in the form of small drops on the surface of bodies.
  • noun. Something likened to dew: As falling lightly, or as serving to refresh.
  • noun. As suggestive of the morning, and hence of freshness and youth.
  • noun. Moisture standing in little drops on anything.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew.
  • Same as due, or duty.
  • noun. Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night.
  • noun. Figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.
  • noun. An emblem of morning, or fresh vigor.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning, resulting in drops.
  • noun. an instance of a such moisture settling on plants, etc.
  • verb. To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air
  • cross-reference
    Form
    dewed  dewing  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baku  Blue  Cebu  Chengdu  Chou  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bloom  breeze  dawn  fragrance  frost  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    due  duty  
    verb-form
    dewed  dewing  dews