"moisturize" meaning in English

See moisturize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈmɔɪs.t͡ʃəraɪz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-moisturize.wav [UK] Forms: moisturize [canonical], moisturizes [third-person, singular], moisturized [past], moisturized [past, participle], moisturizing [present, participle]
Etymology: moisture + -ize Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|moisture|ize}} moisture + -ize Head templates: {{verb|moisturiz|e}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you moisturize something, you make it less dry.
    Sense id: simple-moisturize-en-verb-s6iYvgay
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -ize
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