Usually means: Adding a small amount of liquid.
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  1. moistening: Merriam-Webster
  2. moistening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. moistening: Vocabulary.com
  4. Moistening, moistening: Wordnik
  5. moistening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. moistening: Wiktionary
  7. Moistening, moistening: Dictionary.com
  8. moistening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Moistening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. moistening: Rhymezone
  11. Moistening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. moistening: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. moistening: FreeDictionary.org
  14. moistening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. moistening: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (moistening)

▸ noun:  The act of making something moist.

Similar:
dampening, moisturization, mundification, freshening, tightening, wetting, smoothing, relubrication, seeping, ripening, more...

Opposite:
drying, dehydrating, desiccating

Types:
watering, dewing, humidifying, steaming, misting, more...

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Similar:
dampening, moisturization, mundification, freshening, tightening, wetting, smoothing, relubrication, seeping, ripening, more...

Opposite:
drying, dehydrating, desiccating

Types:
watering, dewing, humidifying, steaming, misting, more...



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