(transitive) To water about or all over; cover, douse, or fill with water; make wet; water; hydrate.
1871, Robert South, Sermons preached upon several occasions:A piece of brass may as easily melt, or a flint bewater itself, as the heart of man, by any innate power of its own, resolve itself into a penitential humiliation.
1906, Country life:For ten days my wife and I fed this mile, every two hours by day, and three by night, wi'h drops of cow's milk, sugared and bewatered.
1912, William Morris, May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris:... unto my chamber aloft now will I go And lie on the bed that knoweth the wailing of my woe, With many a tear bewatered since the day Odysseus fared With Atreus' sons to Ilios.
