单词 | bedwetting |
释义 | bedwetting (bedwetɪŋ) also bed-wetting uncountable noun Bedwetting means urinating in bed, usually by small children. bedwetting in American English (ˈbedˌwetɪŋ) noun urinating in bed, esp. habitually and involuntarily; enuresis Also: bed-wettingWord origin [1885–90; bed + wet (v.) + -ing1]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: foregut, sensitization, toner, upsweep, zoom-ing is a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or itsresult, product, material, etc. (the art of building; a new building; cotton wadding). It is also used to form nouns from words other than verbs (offing; shirting). Verbal nouns ending in -ing are often used attributively (the printing trade) and in forming compounds (drinking song). In some compounds (sewing machine), the first element might reasonably be regarded as the participial adjective, -ing, the compound thus meaning “a machine that sews,” but it is commonly taken as a verbalnoun, the compound being explained as “a machine for sewing”Examples of 'bedwetting' in a sentence |
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