watery 
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wa·tery (-ē)
adjective
- of or like water
- containing or full of water; moist
- thin; diluted watery tea
- tearful; weeping
- in or consisting of water a watery grave
- weak; insipid
- soft or soggy
- full of, secreting, or giving off a morbid discharge resembling water
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watery
modif.
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Modifies a noun
- diarrhea: There is fever, watery diarrhea, + vomiting.
Modifying Another Word
- too: Not too watery cause or it'll slide off off the leaf.
Used with adjective complement
- become: When the ice melts your drink will not lose its flavor and become too watery.
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Fish (fly-replete, in depth of June, Dawdling away their wat'ry noon).
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