WATER


Meaning of WATER in English

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n.

1) to draw, run ~ (for a bath)

2) to add ~

3) to drink; sip ~

4) to pour; spill ~

5) to splash; sprinkle; squirt ~ on

6) to boil, sterilize; chlorinate; distill; filter; fluoridate; purify; soften ~

7) to drain ~ from

8) to pollute ~

9) boiling; carbonated; clear; cold; contaminated, polluted; distilled; drinking, potable; fresh; hard; heavy; holy; hot; ice; mineral; murky; rain; rose; running; safe; salt; salty; sea; soda; soft; stagnant; tepid; warm ~

10) ~ boils; evaporates; flows, pours, runs; freezes; leaks; oozes; rises; vaporizes

11) a body of ~

12) by ~ (to travel by ~)

13) under ~ (after the flood our basement was under ~)

14) ( misc. ) to make/pass ~ ('to urinate'); to hold ~ ('to be valid') (your theory doesn't hold ~); to tread ~ (when swimming); ~ under the bridge ('past events that are done with'); to pour cold ~ on ('to discourage'); to keep one's head above ~ ('to keep out of difficulty'); toilet ~ ('liquid used as a skin freshener')

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v. ( misc. ) to make smb.'s mouth ~ ('to create a desire or appetite in smb.'); her mouth ~s at the sight of popcorn

The Bbi combinatory dictionary of English, a guide to word combinations.      Комбинаторный словарь английского языка Bbi. Руководство по словосочетаниям.