bed-wet
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See also: bedwet
Alternative forms
Etymology
Back-formation from bed-wetting, bed-wetter. Ultimately from bed + wet.
Verb
bed-wet (third-person singular simple present bed-wets, present participle bed-wetting, simple past and past participle bed-wet or bed-wetted)
- (rare, intransitive) To wet the bed: to experience bed-wetting or enuresis, to urinate while asleep.
Usage notes
- Except in its gerund-participle form bed-wetting, this verb is quite rare.
- The past tense and past participle form are ambiguous; both bed-wet and bed-wetted exist, but both are extremely rare.
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