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湿らす and 潤す. Both of them have the same meaning? what's the difference between
them?

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difference of 湿らす vs 潤す
* 湿らす (or its intransitive counterpart 湿る) is a matter-of-fact verb that means "to make/become (mildly) wet".
  * 濡らす (or its intransitive counterpart 濡れる) is "to make/become (hardly/drippingly) wet".
  * 潤す (or its intransitive counterpart 潤う) is used with a narrower range of objects that are considered "unhealthy" when dry, e.g., skin, lip, throat, meat, earth. In other words, 潤す means supplying water to something and putting it into a healthy moist status. The kanji 潤 has a clearly positive connotations (see: [潤い](https://jisho.org/search/%E6%BD%A4%E3%81%84)). 潤す even means "to (financially) enrich", "to (psychologically) comfort", etc., too.
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