Crossword-Solution: MOISTEN 7 letters, 42 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Moisten v. t. To make damp; to wet in a small degree.
Moisten v. t. To soften by making moist; to make tender.

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MOISTEN anagram EMNOSTI, ITSONME, MESTINO, SENTIMO

We have 42 clues for the answer “MOISTEN”

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make or become moist 1 answer
Add a bit of liquid to 1 answer
Humidify. 1 answer
Just add water 1 answer
Lick, as a stamp 1 answer
Lick, as an envelope 1 answer
Lick, as an envelope flap 1 answer
Make slightly damp/wet 1 answer
Prepare for sticking, perhaps 1 answer
Prepare stamps for sticking 1 answer
Prepare to seal, perhaps 1 answer
Use skin cream 1 answer
Wet a little 1 answer
Wet just a bit 1 answer
What misters do 1 answer
What skin creams do 1 answer
Make slightly wet 2 answers
Prepare to seal, as an envelope 2 answers
Gargle 5 answers
bedew 5 answers
Make moist 6 answers
MAKE damp 8 answers
Lubricate 8 answers
DAMPEN THE SPIRITS OF 10 answers
AND WET CHILLY AND DAMP 10 answers
DAMPEN FLAX 10 answers
DAMPEN A STAMP 10 answers
COVER with dew-like water 10 answers
Splash 31 answers
Lap 32 answers
Baste 34 answers
Sprinkle. 36 answers
Bathe 38 answers
Dampen 39 answers
douse 42 answers
Sponge 42 answers
Drip 43 answers
Lick 43 answers
Damp 43 answers
Wetland 44 answers
Cleanse 55 answers
___ wet 61 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MOISTEN (5)

Franklin’s universal genius, dabbling in everything, dabbled in what he called “decorative painting.” He had invented, he informed us, a new mixture to moisten paint with, which he described as a “vehicle.” What it was made of, I don’t know.
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994
Some grooms will go home to their beer and leave us for hours with our dry hay and oats and nothing to moisten them; then of course we gulp down too much at once, which helps to spoil our breathing and sometimes chills our stomachs.
Black Beauty Anna Sewell 2006
The Black Man had got Jerry at last; and though the tear of sensibility might moisten the eye, no one who really knew him could deny the justice of his fate.
The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame 2008
When they were at the door they told her not to forget the comfits and to moisten them well with malmsey.
The White Knight: Tirant lo Blanc Joanot Martorell and Marti Johan d'Galba 1995
The very sun of Spain burns and burns and ripens the wheat on the edge of the coombe, and will only let the spring moisten a yard or two around it; but there a few rushes have sprung, and in the water itself brooklime with blue flowers grows so thickly that nothing but a bird could find space to drink.
The Pageant of Summer Richard Jefferies 2007

Quotes with MOISTEN (3)

We all colour devotion according to our own likings and dispositions. One man sets great value on fasting, and believes himself to be leading a very devout life, so long as he fasts rigorously, although the while his heart is full of bitterness; — and while he will not moisten his lips with wine, perhaps not even with water, in his great abstinence, he does not scruple to steep them in his neighbour’s blood, through slander and detraction.
Francis de Sales Introduction to the Devout Life
Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do." The sign read:"Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion.""It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks…
Douglas Adams So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Hearing has consequences. When I truly hear a person and the meanings that are important to him at that moment, hearing not simply his words, but him, and when I let him know that I have heard his own private personal meanings, many things happen. There is first of all a grateful look. He feels released. He wants to tell me more about his world. He surges forth in a new sense of freedom. He becomes more open to the process of change. I have often noticed that the more deeply …
Carl Rogers
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Used 18 times in crossword archives (1962–2025).