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Watered

Water \Wa"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Watered; p. pr. & vb. n. Watering.] [AS. w[ae]terian, gew[ae]terian.]

  1. To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers.

    With tears watering the ground.
    --Milton.

    Men whose lives gilded on like rivers that water the woodlands.
    --Longfellow.

  2. To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses.

  3. To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk. Cf. Water, n., 6.

  4. To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken.

    To water stock, to increase the capital stock of a company by issuing new stock, thus diminishing the value of the individual shares. Cf. Water, n., 7. [Brokers' Cant]

Wiktionary
watered
  1. Supplied with adequate water. v

  2. (en-past of: water)

WordNet
watered

adj. of silk fabric; having a wavelike pattern [syn: moire]

Usage examples of "watered".

Was the red stuff in my veins to be watered down to pallid Martian sap?

The sides of this great cup were rocky, and clothed with bush, but the centre was of the richest meadow land, studded with single trees of magnificent growth, and watered by meandering brooks.

Then in a grave sowed I the seed of patience, and shone upon it with the sun of hope, and watered it with tears of repentance, and breathed on it with the breath of my knowledge.

Ay, I say to thee that the path of thy passion shall be marked out by the blazing of thy towns and watered with the blood of those who cleave to thee.

Since their departure, the settlers had descended the slopes which constituted the mountain system of the island, on to a dry soil, but the luxuriant vegetation of which indicated it to be watered either by some subterranean marsh or by some stream.

It was a meadow land, dotted here and there with clumps of trees, and watered by a little stream, which sprung from the slopes which closed it in on one side.

Soon they arrived at the place where the road led along the side of the little stream which flowed from the Red Creek and watered the meadows of the corral.

The corral, with its clumps of trees, the little stream which watered it, its wide carpet of grass, was suddenly illuminated.

Next day we marched before the dawn, passing through country that grew continually better watered and more fertile, though it was still open plain but sloping upwards ever more steeply.

But there, beyond the valley, he could see the land he had hoped to find: higher than the plain he had left behind, but well watered, glistening with lakes, coated green by grass, and studded with pockets of forest.

Before the great dryings, the Sahara region had been densely forested and well watered, and home to many species of apes.

Along the riverbank the land was silty, watered, and dense with nutrients, and a vigorous mix of trees, thicket, and grassland grew there, marked by pillars of termite mounds.

Where, in an arid region, the ground can be watered from the enduring streams or from artificial reservoirs, the main advantage arising from the process is commonly found in the control which it gives the farmer in the amount of the soil water.

Mississippi Valley, there are widespread areas, which, though moderately well watered, were in their virgin state almost without forests.

Bordeaux, poured a goblet for himself and his wife, and then watered some wine for each of the children.