kastua — meaning in English

English meaning

• 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

kastua is used for these senses in English:

• get wet (literally, ambitransitive) To come into contact with, or to put (something) into contact with, water, rain, mist, or another liquid.
• water (transitive) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.
• wet (transitive, intransitive) To make or become wet.

Water — full definition

1. noun The clear liquid (H2O) that falls as rain and fills rivers, lakes, and seas, essential to all known life.
2. noun A body of water, such as a sea, lake, or river.
3. verb To supply plants, animals, or soil with water.
4. verb To produce tears or saliva, often as an involuntary reaction.

wet — full definition

1. adj Covered in or soaked with liquid, usually water.
2. adj Describing weather that brings a lot of rain.
3. adj British informal: lacking backbone or firmness of character; feeble.
4. verb To make something wet by applying liquid to it.

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