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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tepid
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
water
▪ He returned carrying some tepid water and cleaning material, and gently began wiping the sore cut.
▪ Leave for half an hour before rinsing with tepid water.
▪ Afterwards, rinse your face with tepid water and two minutes later splash with cold water.
▪ Then we run tepid water and wash off the dried blood.
▪ Relax for fifteen minutes, then rinse off with tepid water.
▪ On the tray were a jug of tepid water, a plate of raw bloody meat and two mouldy lemons.
▪ How to use: As for previous recipe, but rinse off with tepid water.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He soaked a handkerchief in some tepid water and wiped her forehead.
▪ Keizer could only offer tepid praise for Hanshaw's work.
▪ The soup was disgusting, greasy, tepid and watery.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Beyond us a large shallow pond expands its tepid shores on to the field.
▪ Christina went upstairs to her bedroom, peeled off her sticky, crumpled clothes, and jumped into a tepid shower.
▪ He returned carrying some tepid water and cleaning material, and gently began wiping the sore cut.
▪ Leave for half an hour before rinsing with tepid water.
▪ My first tepid foray into activism was the Pillbox Hat Incident.
▪ Sales are so grim they are offering individual game tickets, although the response has been tepid.
▪ The Hidatsa rushed eagerly into hail storms and gathered hail stones to cool their tepid Missouri River drinking water.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tepid

Tepid \Tep"id\, a. [L. tepidus, fr. tepere to be warm; akin to Skr. tap to be warm, tapas heat.] Moderately warm; lukewarm; as, a tepid bath; tepid rays; tepid vapors. -- Tep"id*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tepid

c.1400, from Latin tepidus "lukewarm," from tepere "be moderately warm," from PIE root *tep- "to be hot" (cognates: Sanskrit tapati "makes warm, heats, burns," tapas "heat, austerity;" Avestan tafnush "fever;" Old Church Slavonic topiti "to warm," teplu "warm;" Old Irish tene "fire;" Welsh tes "heat"). Related: Tepidly; tepidity.

Wiktionary
tepid

a. 1 lukewarm; neither warm nor cool. 2 uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness.

WordNet
tepid

adj. moderately warm; "he hates lukewarm coffee"; "tepid bath water" [syn: lukewarm]

Usage examples of "tepid".

Bonaparte As he with other figures foots his reel, Until he twitch him into his lonely grave: Also regard the frail ones that his flings Have made gyrate like animalcula In tepid pools.

He paused only to drink tepid water or eat bland foods, enough to energize his body so that he could keep fighting, training, and sharpening his edge.

The holy man recognised his evangelistary, and, full of astonishment, he sang in the tepid air a hymn to the Creator and His creation.

He first rinsed his mouth, spit out the pinkish fluid, then threw back his head and avidly guzzled at least half the quart of tepid brandy-water, and it was only then that he became fully aware of his surroundings.

Sheriff Dent Hazen fiddled with the dashboard knobs and cursed at the tepid air that streamed from the vents.

I soak a teabag in the tepid water from the drum which sits under a fresh impala carcass.

Blair has cautioned Kaprow that Lake Kiboko in Early Pleistocene times had a more extensive surface area than it does today, and that if the omnibus is parked too close to its twentieth-century shore, I am likely to emerge from my next spirit-traveling episode into several feet of tepid, brackish water.

By moderating the force of the shower, and substituting tepid water, the most delicate persons can endure it and profit thereby.

Across the tepid water ten nipa huts dotted the scrub grass at the edge of the beach.

Lisanne sipped tepid orgeat brought by some lordling produced by Sally Jersey as a suitable partner.

If the attacks occur at night, the body should be sponged before going to bed with tepid water, to which should be added sufficient tincture or infusion of capsicum, or red-pepper, to render it stimulating to the skin.

The first plate of pallid, tepid stodge normally arrived just as the pointer shaded from red into amber.

That in itself made Toret suspicious, but he sensed nothing else as well, not even tepid temperature.

Staring at her reflection in the mirror, she splashed her face with tepid water in an attempt to erase the traces of her tears.

This injected into the rectum, using the water slightly tepid, or cool if the patient is feverish, will tend to soften the actions from the bowels and favor the escape of poisonous matter.