'watering' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is typically used as a verb to denote the process of applying water to something, such as plants. For example, "I spent the morning watering the plants in my garden."
With eyes watering in the sharp wind, it was a relief to shelter under a high bank by the river, where dog violet, barren strawberry and thyme clung to the crumbly debris.
At the time, the SNP dismissed the clauses Cameron put forward as watering down the Smith agreement in key areas, and on Wednesday the SNP's Westminster leader, Angus Robertson, reiterated that "anything less than implementation of the Smith commission in full would be a breach of faith".
Ben Roberts, director of the BFI Film Fund, which helped fund Pride, said he was unsurprised that US distributors had taken the decision to sell more copies by watering down Pride's gay content.
He may reject laissez-faire, but a retreat from industrial policy, watering down the green investment bank and mere exhortations for banks to lend again does not suggest success.
The former chief executive of Autonomy claimed that Hewlett-Packard was watering down the accusations it had levelled against him over the accounts filed by his old software company – and said that he had not heard from the US Department of Justice, which HP had revealed had opened an investigation into the dispute last month.
Most urban areas long ago placed restrictions on two activities dear to American hearts--washing cars and watering lawns--but dropping reservoir levels are causing officials to consider more draconian restrictions.
Espadafor's local fame doesn't stem from its beautiful 1910 Andalus-tiled interior swathed in posters of bullfights and fiestas, but from its mouth-watering roast ham - usually served as a primero (first) plate.
Skinner wound up the Streets in 2011, producing an eye-watering memoir, The Story of the Streets, a year later.
After the anecdotal intimacies of the award-winning Toast, the mouth-watering riches of The Kitchen Diaries, here at OFM we're absolutely thrilled to be extracting his brilliant new book Eating for England.
In 2008 the rapper Snoop Dogg received an eye-watering 800 hours for drug and gun offences, but was allowed to spend half of them working on his own Snoop youth gridiron football league.
Mr Kenyatta, one of Kenya's richest oligarchs, who next month will complete his first year in office, is reportedly fond of similar ritzy watering-holes.Barely a mile away from the Capital Club, the acrid fumes of charcoal fires in Kibera, a notorious slum, mingle with the stench of sewage running down the muddy alleys where perhaps 800,000 Nairobians live in hugger-mugger squalor.
