wet the bed
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wet the bed (third-person singular simple present wets the bed, present participle wetting the bed, simple past and past participle wet the bed or wetted the bed)
- (idiomatic) To urinate in one's bed (during sleep).
- 1998 November, Bethany Campbell [pseudonym; Sally Lea McCluskey], Hear No Evil, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 238:
- Unsecure is what she was. She wetted the bed a lot, and always she was sucking on her thumb.
- (euphemistic) To go bad, to fail. Often said of machines; a euphemism for shit the bed.
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- to wet oneself (nearly synonymous, whereas the distinction is wetting one's clothing while awake versus wetting the bedclothes, usually while asleep)
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to urinate in one's bed during sleep
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