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wetting oneself

wetting oneself is the present participle and gerund of wet oneself.

Meaning of wet oneself

Verb

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

  1. To lose control of one's bladder and involuntarily urinate into one's clothing.
    • “Looks like she wetted herself, poor child,” the woman said, dabbing at my clothes with a wet towel, […]2009, Joyce Carol Oates, Little Bird of Heaven, London: Fourth Estate, HarperCollinsPublishers, published 2010, →ISBN, pages 201–202

Questions about wetting oneself

What is wetting oneself the present participle and gerund of?
Wetting oneself is the present participle and gerund of wet oneself.

Words near wetting oneself in the dictionary

  1. wetting machines
  2. wetting one's beak
  3. wetting one's clay
  4. wetting one's pants
  5. wetting one's whistle
  6. wetting oneself
  7. wetting out
  8. wetting the baby's head
  9. wetting the bed
  10. wetting the other eye
  11. wetting the shamrock

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