ADJ
- boiling, cold, hot, ice-cold, lukewarm, tepid, warm
- clean, clear, crystal-clear, pure
- dirty
- fresh
- brackish, salt
- These fish will quickly die in salt water
- salty
- Abscesses should be bathed in warm salty water
- salted
- Cook the pasta in plenty of boiling salted water
- hard, soft
- flowing, running
- the fast-flowing water of the river All the rooms have hot and cold running water
- river, sea
- surface
- The surface water made the road treacherous for drivers
- drinking
- tap
- Avoid drinking the tap water when you first arrive in the country
- bottled, mineral, spring
- waste
- scarce
VERB + WATER
- drink
- pour
- slosh, spill, splash, spray, sprinkle, spurt, squirt
- Don't slosh too much water on the floor when you're having a bath. The burst pipe was spurting water everywhere
- filter, purify
- contaminate, pollute
- turn off/on
- They turned the water off for a few hours to do some work on the pipes
WATER + VERB
- flow, pour, run
- gush, spurt
- Brown water gushed out of the rusty old tap
- drip, trickle
- There was water dripping from a hole in the ceiling
- lap, slosh, spill, splash, spray, squirt
- Water had got into the boat and was sloshing about under our feet
- boil, freeze
WATER + NOUN
- vapour
- temperature
- pressure
- supply
- resources
- quality
- purification, treatment
- filter
- pollution
- shortage
- level
- table
- Building can be difficult where the water table lies close to the surface
- power
- company, industry
PHRASES
- water-repellent
- water-repellent leather
- water-resistant
- a water-resistant watch
ADJ
- deep, shallow
- clear
- muddy, murky, stagnant
- calm, placid, still
- the calm waters of Lake Como
- choppy, rough, stormy
- dangerous, safe
- At last the boat reached safer waters
- flood
- The flood water had caused tremendous damage
- rising
- They climbed a tree to escape the rising water
- bathing
PREP
- by ~
- Many goods were transported by water in the last century
- in the ~
- I saw something large floating in the water
- on the ~
- The swan landed gracefully on the water
- through the ~
- The boat cut effortlessly through the water
- under the ~
- An abandoned village lies under the water of the reservoir
PHRASES
- the water's edge
- She crouched at the water's edge to wash her hands
ADJ
- territorial
- coastal
- tropical
- northern, southern
- Antarctic, Arctic
- Atlantic, Pacific, etc.
- home, foreign, international
- Japanese, etc.
- uncharted
- The ship had drifted into uncharted waters
PREP
- in/into … ~
- The submarine had strayed into Russian waters