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bed-wet

bed-wet verb: to wet the bed: to experience bed-wetting or enuresis, to urinate while asleep.

Verb

bed-wet (third-person singular simple present bed-wets, present participle bed-wetting, simple past and past participle bed-wet or bed-wetted)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To wet the bed: to experience bed-wetting or enuresis, to urinate while asleep.

Forms of bed-wet

third-person singular presentbed-wets
present participlebed-wetting
past participlebed-wet
pastbed-wet
past participlebed-wetted
pastbed-wetted
alternative formbedwet

Origin of bed-wet

Back-formation from bed-wetting, bed-wetter. Ultimately from bed + wet.

Questions about bed-wet

What does bed-wet mean?
Bed-wet means to wet the bed: to experience bed-wetting or enuresis, to urinate while asleep.
What part of speech is bed-wet?
Bed-wet is a verb.
What is the past tense of bed-wet?
The past tense of bed-wet is bed-wet.

Words near bed-wet in the dictionary

  1. Bed-Stuy
  2. bed-tea
  3. bed-teas
  4. bed-time
  5. bed-times
  6. bed-wet
  7. bed-wets
  8. bed-wetted
  9. bed-wetter
  10. bed-wetters
  11. bed-wetting

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