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English
Pronunciation
Verb
wet oneself (third-person singular simple present wets oneself, present participle wetting oneself, simple past and past participle wet oneself or wetted oneself)
- To lose control of one's bladder and involuntarily urinate into one's clothing.
2009, Joyce Carol Oates, Little Bird of Heaven, London: Fourth Estate, HarperCollinsPublishers, published 2010, →ISBN, pages 201–202:“Looks like she wetted herself, poor child,” the woman said, dabbing at my clothes with a wet towel, […]
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Coordinate terms
- to wet the bed (nearly synonymous, whereas the distinction is wetting one's clothing while awake versus wetting the bedclothes, usually while asleep)
Translations
lose control of one's bladder
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 瀨尿 / 濑尿 (laai6 niu6)
- Mandarin: 尿褲子 / 尿裤子 (zh) (niào kùzi)
- Dutch: broekplassen
- Finnish: laskea alleen
- French: se mouiller (fr), faire pipi dans sa culotte, s’empipier
- Greek: κατουριέμαι (el) (katouriémai)
- Hungarian: (medical) bevizel (hu), (childish) bepisil (hu), (slang) bepisál (hu), (vulgar) behugyozik
- Italian: farsela sotto
- Norwegian: tisse på seg, tisse seg ut, tisse i buksa
- Portuguese: mijar-se
- Russian: (children's speech) обпи́саться pf (obpísatʹsja), упи́саться (ru) pf (upísatʹsja)
- Spanish: orinarse (es), mearse (es)
- Swedish: kissa på sig
- Turkish: altına yapmak, altını ıslatmak (tr)
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