adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
moist/watery/tearful (= full of tears )
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Bethan’s eyes grew moist as she talked about her family.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
diarrhoea
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She developed a mild watery diarrhoea after two months of treatment but this resolved after gold injections were temporarily stopped.
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Symptoms included nausea, vomiting, and watery diarrhoea .
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The commonest clinical symptom associated with V cholerae non-O1 infection is watery diarrhoea , mild to moderate in severity.
grave
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Moves are now being made to lift the aircraft from its watery grave and preserve it locally.
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Steward needed three shots to escape his watery grave and had a drenched set of waterproofs to prove it.
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Should any fellow be passing by, he must refuse their invitation or else they will dance him to a watery grave .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a watery green light
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All they had to eat for weeks was bread and watery cabbage soup.
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Nicole got a cup of watery coffee from the machine downstairs.
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Ragweed causes runny noses and watery eyes.
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The coffee is horrible - really weak and watery .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All week-end long, it sat on the kitchen table staring at him like a cold watery eye.
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In the eyes of the neighbours a watery oblivion.
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Lava lamps adorned the stage, while watery , pulsating lights flashed behind them.
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Men and boys send it arching, watery tributes.
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On the walls are framed prints of herons and egrets in cypress swamps and watery glades.
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Steward needed three shots to escape his watery grave and had a drenched set of waterproofs to prove it.
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The airline even staged a memorial near the watery crater in the Everglades.
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The net curtains were planets of watery growth.