different between moisten vs imbrue

English

Etymology

From moist +? -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??s?n/
• Rhymes: -??s?n

Verb

moisten (third-person singular simple present moistens, present participle moistening, simple past and past participle moistened)

1. (transitive) To make moist or moister.
2. (intransitive) To become moist or moister.

Translations

Anagrams

• mestino, misnote

Finnish

Alternative forms

• moisien

Adjective

moisten

1. Genitive plural form of moinen.

Anagrams

• monesti, moniste

Middle English

Alternative forms

• moiste, moystyn, moysten, moyst, mooysten

Etymology

From moiste +? -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?i?st?n/

Verb

moisten

1. to moisten (make moister)
2. to supply or provide with moisture.
3. (rare) to invigorate; to enliven.
4. (rare) to become moist or moister.

Conjugation

Descendants

• English: moist (obsolete as a verb)

References

• “moisten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Etymology

From Old French embruer, from Germanic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?b?u?/

Verb

imbrue (third-person singular simple present imbrues, present participle imbruing, simple past and past participle imbrued)

1. To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.).
   • 1837: Edward Smallwood, Manuella, the Executioner’s Daughter?;?A Story of Madrid, volume II, pages 275–276 (Richard Bentley)

     Armed with the weapon which was destined to destroy himself, Imnaz sprang down the ladder,?—?found the door, and, emerging from the abode of crime, sought a more secure resting place, leaving his hostess to discover, with return of day, in whose blood were imbrued the hands of an hospiticide.

Alternative forms

• embrue

Translations

Anagrams

• erbium, imbuer, murbie