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# moisturise

«moisturise» in Mova's school dictionary: **To put cream or lotion on your skin so that it stays soft…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (moisturise, moisturises, moisturised, moisturising); US spelling moisturize

### meaning for a pupil

1) To put cream or lotion on your skin so that it stays soft and does not get dry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moisturise/#m1)

2) To make something less dry by adding a little water or oil to it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moisturise/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

An everyday and health word: people moisturise dry hands in winter, after swimming, or when they have eczema. In science lessons it links to skin as an organ that can lose water. Common phrases: «moisturise your skin», «moisturise your hands», «moisturising cream».

### examples

- Mum told me to moisturise my hands after washing up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moisturise/#x1)
- In winter my skin gets so dry that I have to moisturise every night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moisturise/#x2)
- The nurse said to moisturise the eczema patches twice a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moisturise/#x3)
- Dad never moisturises, and his lips get cracked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moisturise/#x4)
- This shampoo claims to moisturise your hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moisturise/#x5)
- After swimming in chlorine, Grandma always moisturises her face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moisturise/#x6)
- Moisturising cream feels cold when you first put it on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moisturise/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: moisturised, moisturising. UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand often write -ise (moisturise); the USA and Canada write -ize (moisturize). Related words: moisture (noun, uncountable), moisturiser (the cream). Do not confuse with «moisten», which means to make a little wet, not to put cream on.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «moisturise» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moisturise/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.