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• n  the act of making something wet
• n  a euphemism for urination
• v  cause to become wet
• v  make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating

• SCIENCE Sulphonated castor oil, the sodium alkyl sulphates, and the sodium salts of sulphonated alkyl naphthalenes are "wetting agents.
• What was needed was a wetting agent for the mercury.
• Synthetic wetting agents and detergents, newcomers to industrial chemistry, have just had the biggest year in their short but lively history.

• leak
• making water
• passing water
• wet

• dry

News & Articles

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• Bed-wetting in teen years can lead to anxiety
  Q: I'm a teenager who still wets the bed. Is this common and what can I do about it? A: The clinical name for bed-wetting is nocturnal enuresis.
  June 24, 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Quotes

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• Jenson Button in The Press Association
  Button in particular, though, was having none of it as he said: "I was wetting myself when I saw the paper. It's hilarious We did this promo thing in a VW campervan and stopped at a petrol station on the way up, handing out grandstand tickets. So we...
• Don Nelson in CBC.ca
  What a game to tie the record, unbelievable,Nelson said. "This is about everything you would want from good to bad, to playing great, to wetting the bed, and we did about all of that. Somehow we prevailed."
• David Plouffe in Politico
  We're familiar with this,Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, told The New York Times a few days ago. "And I'm sure between now and Nov. 4 there will be another period of hand-wringing and bed-wetting. It comes with the territory."