bed-wet

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Back-formation from bed-wetting, bed-wetter. Ultimately from bed + wet.

Verb

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

  1. (rare, intransitive) To wet the bed: to experience bed-wetting or enuresis, to urinate while asleep.

Usage notes

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  • Except in its gerund-participle form bed-wetting, this verb is quite rare.
  • The past tense and past participle form are ambiguous; both bed-wet and bed-wetted exist, but both are extremely rare.