watering

B2 · Upper Intermediate Medicine

v. when your eyes produce tears or your mouth produces saliva.

v. the physiological process of secreting tears or saliva, often as a reaction to irritants or appetising smells.

“The smell of fresh bread had my mouth watering immediately.”

“The patient complained of persistent eye watering and redness, which the specialist attributed to a seasonal pollen allergy.”

C1 · Advanced Uncountable noun Formal

n. adding water to a drink or liquid to make it weaker.

n. the act of diluting a substance by adding water, often used figuratively to describe weakening an idea or policy.

“The watering of the juice made it taste very thin and bland.”

“Critics argued that the watering down of the original legislation rendered the new environmental protections largely toothless.”