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Crosswords: Water Down |
| English words defined with "water down": abrasion, attrition ♦ beach, beachlike, beachy, butterfly, butterfly stroke ♦ Catoptromancy ♦ detrition, divining rod, dowsing rod, drilling fluid, drilling mud ♦ flushless toilet ♦ ghat, grinding ♦ hatless, howl, Hydracrylic, Hydraulic mining ♦ Jigging ♦ lahar ♦ percolator, Popple ♦ roar ♦ Seed bag, shipway, slipway, snorkel ♦ Tromp ♦ water chute, Water spider, Water thermometer, water waggon, water wagon, ways. (references) |
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Screenplays | Then the waiter spilled water down my back, and my boob popped out. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
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| Language | Translations for "water down"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zbukuroj (adorn, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, bespangle, bespread, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, embroider, festoon, flatter, Flavor, flavour, garnish, gild the pill, glorify, inlay, intersperse, landscape, ornament, pink, prettify, set with, smarten up, stud, touch up, trap, trick out, trim), holloj me ujë (water). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تزود بالماء, خفف (alleviate, attemper, attenuate, deaden, ease off, extenuate, gloss over the facts, lessen, mitigate, modify, muffle, palliate, qualify, relax, relent, relieve, remit, slack, slake, slim, solace, subdue, succor, succour, thin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | смекчавам (break down, chastise, correct, cushion, extenuate, humanize, lighten, melt, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, qualify, quiet, retouch, season, smooth out, soften, subdue, tame, temper, turn), разреждам (attenuate, dilute, qualify, rarefy, reduce, space), разтварям във вода, разводнявам (dilute, thin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozředit (dilute, rarefy), ředit vodou. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | forvanske et forslag (to water down a proposal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | een voorstel ontaarden (to water down a proposal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vesittää. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | couper d'eau (water), atténuer, édulcorer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verwässern (dilute, water), verdünnen (attenuate, dilute, rarefy, thin, thin down, to dilute, water, weaken), panschen (adulterate, splash), aufweichen (be weakened, become sodden, get soft, macerate, make sodden, make soft, soak, soften, to soften, weaken), abschwächen (attenuate, deaden, dull, extenuate, lessen, mellow, muffle, soften, temper, to attenuate, to extenuate, tone down, understate, weaken), abmildern (attenuate, tone down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τροποποιώ ουσιωδώς μια πρόταση (to water down a proposal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לדלל (dilute, rarefy, thin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hígít (attenuate, dilute, extenuate, rarefy, to dilute, to extenuate, to slack, to thin, to water, to weaken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mencairkan (dilute, liquefy, thaw out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | diluire (cut, dilute, thin, thin down, weaken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 薄める (to dilute, to water down), 水で薄める (to dilute with water, to water down), ウイスキーを水で薄める (to water down one's whiskey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うすめる (to dilute, to water down), みずでうすめる (to dilute with water, to water down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cur ushtey er (water), cur ushtey ayns. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aterway ownday adulterar uma proposta (to water down a proposal). (various references) atenua (abate, alleviate, attenuate, dilute, diminish, dull, extenuate, gloze, mellow, reduce, soften, subdue, subjugate, tone down). (various references) разбавлять (dilute, dope, thin out). (various references) razvodniti (dilute), razblažiti (attenuate, dilute). (various references) aguar (spoil, thin, water). (various references) urvattna (dilute, soak), späda ut (adulterate, dilute). (various references) sulandırmak (blear, cut, dilute, doctor, lengthen, reconstitute, water), su katmak (add water, qualify, reconstitute, water). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-o-r-t-w-w" | |
-1 letter: danewort, teardown, townwear. | |
-3 letters: ardent, atoned, atoner, donate, downer, onward, orated, ornate, ranted, redowa, rodent, toward, trowed, wander, wanted, wanter, warden, warned, warted, wonder, wonted. | |
-4 letters: adore, adorn, adown, anode, anted, antre, atone, awned, dater, dawen, denar, derat, dewan, dewar, doter, dower, drawn, drone, drown, endow, noted, noter, oared, oaten, oater, orate, oread. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-o-r-t-w-w" | |
+4 letters: northwestward. | |
+5 letters: northwestwards. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 74 65 72 44 6F 77 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W a t e r   D o w n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0061 0074 0065 0072 0044 006F 0077 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5767867184238818980 |
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