Usually means: Attract or retain environmental moisture.
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  1. humect: Merriam-Webster
  2. humect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. humect: Collins English Dictionary
  4. humect: Wordnik
  5. humect: Wiktionary
  6. Humect: Dictionary.com
  7. Humect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Humect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. humect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. humect: FreeDictionary.org
  11. humect: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. Humect: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  (archaic) to wet; to moisten.

Similar:
humectate, enmoisten, bewet, embrocate, wash, Sammy, bedamp, arrose, huggle, mistify, more...

Opposite:
desiccate, dry, dehydrate

Types:
glycerin, propylene glycol, sorbitol, honey, lecithin, lanolin, urea, more...

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Similar:
humectate, enmoisten, bewet, embrocate, wash, Sammy, bedamp, arrose, huggle, mistify, more...

Opposite:
desiccate, dry, dehydrate

Types:
glycerin, propylene glycol, sorbitol, honey, lecithin, lanolin, urea, more...



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