kastella — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bathe verb To wash yourself, or someone else, using water.
- dabble verb To try an activity casually or occasionally, without serious commitment.
- irrigate verb To supply land with water using channels, pipes, or sprinklers so crops can grow.
- wash verb To clean something using water, usually with soap.
- Water noun The clear liquid (H2O) that falls as rain and fills rivers, lakes, and seas, essential to all known life.
- wet adj Covered in or soaked with liquid, usually water.
Senses
kastella is used for these senses in English:
- bathe (transitive) To apply water or other liquid to; to suffuse or cover with liquid.
- bedabble To dabble about or all over with moisture; make something wet by sprinkling or spattering water, paint, or other liquid on it.
- dabble (transitive) To make slightly wet or soiled by spattering or sprinkling a liquid (such as water, mud, or paint) on it; to bedabble. [from late 16th c.]
- irrigate (transitive) To supply (farmland) with water, by building ditches, pipes, etc.
- wash (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- water (transitive) To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).
bathe — full definition
- verb To wash yourself, or someone else, using water.
- verb To swim or immerse yourself in open water for pleasure.
- verb To cover or wash something in light or liquid.
dabble — full definition
- verb To try an activity casually or occasionally, without serious commitment.
- verb To splash a body part gently in water or soft mud, often playfully.