wet oneself

English edit

Verb edit

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 edit

Coordinate terms edit

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

Translations edit

lose control of one's bladder

Chinese:
Cantonese: 瀨尿／濑尿 (laai⁶ niu⁶)

Mandarin: 尿褲子／尿裤子 (zh) (niào kùzi)
Dutch: broekplassen
Finnish: laskea alleen
French: se mouiller (fr), faire pipi dans sa culotte, s’empipier
Greek: κατουριέμαι (el) (katouriémai)
Hungarian: (medical) bevizel (hu), (childish) bepisil (hu), (slang) bepisál (hu), (vulgar) behugyozik
Italian: farsela sotto
Norwegian: tisse på seg, tisse seg ut, tisse i buksa
Portuguese: mijar-se
Russian: (children's speech) обпи́саться pf (obpísatʹsja), упи́саться (ru) pf (upísatʹsja)
Spanish: orinarse (es), mearse (es)
Swedish: kissa på sig
Turkish: altına yapmak, altını ıslatmak (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Russian: пи́саться (ru) impf (písatʹsja), упи́саться (ru) pf (upísatʹsja), опи́саться (ru) pf (opísatʹsja), мочи́ться (ru) impf (močítʹsja), обмочи́ться (ru) pf (območítʹsja); (vulgar) уссыва́ться impf (ussyvátʹsja), уссыка́ться (ru) impf (ussykátʹsja), усса́ться (ru) pf (ussátʹsja), обоссыва́ться impf (obossyvátʹsja), обсыка́ться impf (obsykátʹsja), обосса́ться (ru) pf (obossátʹsja)