"moisturize" meaning in English

See moisturize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈmɔɪs.t͡ʃəɹaɪz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-moisturize.wav [Southern-England] Forms: moisturizes [present, singular, third-person], moisturizing [participle, present], moisturized [participle, past], moisturized [past]
Etymology: Etymology tree English moisture Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English moisturize From moisture + -ize. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|moisture|-ize|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree English moisture Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English moisturize [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "bor.", "keyword_label" : "Borrowed from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "verbal", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-id-", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "ine-pro" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-yéti", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-idyéti", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Hellenic", "term" : "*-íďďō", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "grk-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "-ῐ́ζω", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Late Latin", "term" : "-izō", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la-lat" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle French", "term" : "-iser", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "frm" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "-isen", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-ize", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "moisturize", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="moisturize"> From moisture + -ize. Head templates: {{en-verb}} moisturize (third-person singular simple present moisturizes, present participle moisturizing, simple past and past participle moisturized)
  1. (transitive) To make more moist. Tags: transitive Translations (to make more moist): رَطَّبَ (raṭṭaba) (Arabic), bevochtigen (Dutch), kosteuttaa (Finnish), befeuchten (German), eincremen (note: of skin) (German), humidificar (Spanish), humedecer (Spanish), fukta (Swedish), återfukta (Swedish), nemlendirmek (Turkish)
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  2. (transitive) To make more humid. Tags: transitive Translations (to make more humid): natmaken (Dutch), kosteuttaa (Finnish), Feuchtigkeit spenden (German), humidificar (Spanish), humedecer (Spanish), fukta (Swedish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: moisten, moisturise, humidify Derived forms: moisturization, moisturizer, remoisturize, unmoisturized

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    {
      "form": "moisturizes",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "moisturizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moisturized",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "moisturized",
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        "past"
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    }
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      "args": {},
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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              0,
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            ]
          ],
          "text": "moisturize your skin",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "To make more moist."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "moist",
          "moist"
        ]
      ],
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        "(transitive) To make more moist."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make more humid."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humid",
          "humid"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To make more humid."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɔɪs.t͡ʃəɹaɪz/"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "word": "moisten"
    },
    {
      "word": "moisturise"
    },
    {
      "word": "humidify"
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "lang_code": "ar",
      "roman": "raṭṭaba",
      "sense": "to make more moist",
      "word": "رَطَّبَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "sense": "to make more moist",
      "word": "bevochtigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "to make more moist",
      "word": "kosteuttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "to make more moist",
      "word": "befeuchten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "note": "of skin",
      "sense": "to make more moist",
      "word": "eincremen"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "to make more moist",
      "word": "humidificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "to make more moist",
      "word": "humedecer"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "to make more moist",
      "word": "fukta"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "to make more moist",
      "word": "återfukta"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "to make more moist",
      "word": "nemlendirmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "sense": "to make more humid",
      "word": "natmaken"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "to make more humid",
      "word": "kosteuttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "to make more humid",
      "word": "Feuchtigkeit spenden"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "to make more humid",
      "word": "humidificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "to make more humid",
      "word": "humedecer"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "to make more humid",
      "word": "fukta"
    }
  ],
  "word": "moisturize"
}

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