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/bɪˈwɔːtɚ/ · verb
(transitive) To water about or all over; cover, douse, or fill with water; make wet; water; hydrate..
A piece of brass may as easily melt, or a flint bewater itself, as the heart of man, by any innate power of its own, resolve itself into a penitential humiliation.
For ten days my wife and I fed this mile, every two hours by day, and three by night, wi'h drops of cow's milk, sugared and bewatered.
[...] unto my chamber aloft now will I go And lie on the bed that knoweth the wailing of my woe, With many a tear bewatered since the day Odysseus fared With Atreus' sons to Ilios.
Use bewater when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bewater means (transitive) To water about or all over; cover, douse, or fill with water; make wet; water; hydrate..
Common synonyms include soak.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A piece of brass may as easily melt, or a flint bewater itself, as the heart of man, by any innate power of its own, resolve itself into a penitential humiliation.
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