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单词 unwatered
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unwateredadj.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈwɔːtəd/, U.S. /ˌənˈwɔdərd/, /ˌənˈwɑdərd/
Etymology: un- prefix1 2. Compare older Flemish onghewaetert (Kilian), Dutch ongewatert, German ungewässert.
1.
a. Not sprinkled, moistened, or artificially supplied with water.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > arid or without water or moisture
waterlessOE
unwateryc1000
unwateredc1440
moistureless1562
droughty1596
floodless1606
squalid1615
arid1652
siccaneous1656
anhydrous1872
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. x. 111 Tyl hit be hard, vnwattred must hit [sc. land] be, Lest al the werk corrupte humydite.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Ongewatert, vnwatered, or Vnsprinckled.
1731 A. Pope Epist. to Earl of Burlington 10 Un-water'd see the drooping Sea-horse mourn.
1899 Daily News 12 June 7/5 To facilitate cavalry charges the main thoroughfares remained unwatered.
b. Of dress materials: (see water v. 12).
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > iridescence > [adjective] > moire > not watered (of materials)
unwatered1535
1535 in Archaeol. IX. 248 A long gowne of unwatered chamblette.
1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Bij Chamlets watered and vnwatred.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Ongewatert Kamelot, vnwatered Chamlot.
1706 London Gaz. No. 4189/4 Coarse unwatered Camblets.
1750 Lady J. Coke Let. 9 Oct. (1899) xiii. 61 I have given half-a guinea for an unwatered tabby.
2. Not soaked or steeped in water. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > not made wet > not soaked, drenched, etc.
unwatered1513
unsoaked1570
undrowned1580
unsteeped1626
undrenched1627
undipped1648
undeluged1791
unsodden1819
emersed1870
unimmersed1885
1513 Will of Robert Fabyan in R. Fabyan New Chrons. Eng. & France (1811) Pref. p. v Than I will that the said. xxiiij. peces of fleshe be altered unto saltfyche or stokfyshe, unwatered and unsodeyn.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Divv/1 Vnwatred, immaceratus.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Ongeweyckt, not laid in water, or Vnwatered, as Harberdine, &c.
3.
a. Not mixed with water; undiluted.
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the world > food and drink > drink > types or qualities of beverage > [adjective] > undiluted
unwatered1562
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 35v Entre into a bath, and drynke vnwatered wyne after.
1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas 582 Augustus Cæsar..seldome dranke his wine unwatered.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Ongewaterden wijn, vnwatered wine, or Vn-mixed with water.
1870 R. W. Emerson Farming in Society & Solitude The farmer has a great health;..his milk at least, is un~watered.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid v, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 224 Twain huge flagons of wine unwatered.
b. Finance. (See watered adj.1 4b).
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [adjective] > other attributes of investments or capital
sound1601
unexchanged1618
discountable1771
defensive1857
uncalled1869
callable1874
pooled1888
unwatered1893
labile1894
aggressive1899
non-callable1902
geared1930
escrowed1946
undynamized1969
banded1987
1893 Westm. Gaz. 29 June 6/1 The 25 per cent. represents 1,250 per cent. on the original unwatered capital, or over £687,000 on a real capital of £55,000.
4. Of land, a district, etc.: Not provided with a natural supply of water; waterless. Also in figurative context.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [adjective] > barren or desert > waterless
thirstya1425
carbuncled1577
unwatered1600
arid1656
starkc1740
thirstful1865
dry land1893
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vi. vii. 740 In hot, drie, and vnwatered places.
1794 A. Young Trav. France (ed. 2) II. 152 The country (that I saw) is poor and unwatered, in the Milanese.
1794 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Cambr. 55 The grass..is chiefly inferior to that..which grows..upon unwatered ground.
1829 J. Montgomery in S. Rogers et al. Poet. Wks. 194 Kedron's unwater'd brook is dumb.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 14 The soul of the sinner is..unfruitful;..for it is..unwatered by the Fountain of living waters.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 100 The unwatered region away from the river.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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