wet oneself
English
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, […]
Synonyms
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
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