wet the bed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɛt ðə ˈbɛd/

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Verb

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)

1. (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.

2. (euphemistic) To go bad, to fail. Often said of machines; a euphemism for shit the bed.

Coordinate terms

• to wet oneself (nearly synonymous, whereas the distinction is wetting one's clothing while awake versus wetting the bedclothes, usually while asleep)

Derived terms

• bedwetter
• bedwetting

Related terms

• piss-the-bed (pissabed)

Translations

to urinate in one's bed during sleep

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尿にょう床ゆか (zh) (niàochuáng), 尿にょう炕 (zh) (niàokàng)

• Esperanto: malsekigi la liton
• Finnish: kastella vuoteensa
• French: faire pipi au lit, mouiller son lit (fr)
• Japanese: ベッドを濡ぬらす (beddo wo nurasu)
• Polish: moczyć łóżko impf
• Russian: страда́ть (ночны́м) недержа́нием мочи́ impf (stradátʹ (nočným) nederžánijem močí)
• Spanish: mojar la cama
• Swedish: kissa i sängen