WATERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does watering mean? 

• WATERING (noun)
  The noun WATERING has 2 senses:

1. shedding tears

2. wetting with water

  Familiarity information: WATERING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shedding tears

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

lachrymation; lacrimation; tearing; watering

Hypernyms ("watering" is a kind of...):

activity; bodily function; bodily process; body process (an organic process that takes place in the body)

Derivation:

water (fill with tears)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wetting with water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the lawn needs a great deal of watering

Hypernyms ("watering" is a kind of...):

wetting (the act of making something wet)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "watering"):

sparge; sprinkle; sprinkling (the act of sprinkling or splashing water)

Derivation:

water (supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams)

 Context examples 

Symptoms include pain and redness in the eye, photophobia and eye watering.

(Corneal Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

The grasslands the animals depend on for food dried up and watering holes disappeared, leaving many animals starving or weak from hunger.

(Born during a drought: Bad news for baboons, NSF)

With the dogs falling, Mercedes weeping and riding, Hal swearing innocuously, and Charles’s eyes wistfully watering, they staggered into John Thornton’s camp at the mouth of White River.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“Come in, Mr. Fidelio. Every man to his own taste, and six drops to the half-pint seems a sinful watering of grog—but if you like it so, you shall have it.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was fond of all boy's plays, and greatly preferred cricket not merely to dolls, but to the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)