WATERY


Meaning of WATERY in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

moist/watery/tearful (= full of tears )

Bethan’s eyes grew moist as she talked about her family.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

diarrhoea

She developed a mild watery diarrhoea after two months of treatment but this resolved after gold injections were temporarily stopped.

Symptoms included nausea, vomiting, and watery diarrhoea .

The commonest clinical symptom associated with V cholerae non-O1 infection is watery diarrhoea , mild to moderate in severity.

grave

Moves are now being made to lift the aircraft from its watery grave and preserve it locally.

Steward needed three shots to escape his watery grave and had a drenched set of waterproofs to prove it.

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

a watery green light

All they had to eat for weeks was bread and watery cabbage soup.

Nicole got a cup of watery coffee from the machine downstairs.

Ragweed causes runny noses and watery eyes.

The coffee is horrible - really weak and watery .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All week-end long, it sat on the kitchen table staring at him like a cold watery eye.

In the eyes of the neighbours a watery oblivion.

Lava lamps adorned the stage, while watery , pulsating lights flashed behind them.

Men and boys send it arching, watery tributes.

On the walls are framed prints of herons and egrets in cypress swamps and watery glades.

Steward needed three shots to escape his watery grave and had a drenched set of waterproofs to prove it.

The airline even staged a memorial near the watery crater in the Everglades.

The net curtains were planets of watery growth.

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