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adjective (comparative wet·ter, superlative wet·test) |
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1. soaked with water: covered, soaked, or dampened with water or some other liquid
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2. not yet dry: not completely dry
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3. not yet set: not yet firm or solidified
  wet cement
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4. rainy, showery, misty, or foggy: characterized by rain, showers, mist, or fog
a wet weekend
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5. with rainy weather: subject to frequent heavy rain, showers, mist, or fog
a wet climate
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6. using or done with liquid: using or done in water or another liquid
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7. allowing liquor sales: allowing the legal manufacture, storage, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages
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a wet town
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8. U.S. favoring liquor sales: favoring the legal manufacture, storage, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages
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a wet representative
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9. U.K. offensive term: an offensive term used to indicate somebody regarded as weak and lacking resolution or decisiveness
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informal insult
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noun (plural wets) |
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1. liquid or moisture: water or another liquid, or moisture from it
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2. rainy or damp weather: rainy, showery, misty, or foggy weather
Come in out of the wet.
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3. U.S. supporter of legal liquor sales: a supporter of the legal manufacture, storage, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages
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informal
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4. U.K. offensive term: an offensive term for somebody regarded as weak, irresolute, or indecisive
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informal insult
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5. U.K. liberal Conservative: a Conservative politician whose policies some other Conservatives consider not to be sufficiently pure or doctrinaire
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informal
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verb (past and past participle wet or wet·ted, present participle wet·ting, 3rd person present singular wets) |
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1. transitive and intransitive verb make or become wet: to become damp or soaked with water or some other liquid, or cause something to become damp or soaked
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2. transitive verb make wet by urinating: to cause something to be damp or soaked with urine
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| [ Old English wǣt, wǣta (noun), wǣt (adjective), and wǣtan (verb) < Indo-European, "water, wet"] |
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| wet·ly adverb |
| wet·ness noun |
| wet·ta·ble adjective |
| wet·ter noun |
| wet·tish adjective |
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all wet completely mistaken or wrong (slang)
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wet, damp, moist, dank, humid, sodden, saturated, soaking, sopping
CORE MEANING: not dry
wet covered, soaked, or dampened with water or some other liquid;
a wet sponge
It can be dangerous driving on wet roads.
damp slightly wet, especially undesirably so;
The mattress was too damp to sleep on.
moist slightly wet, especially pleasantly so;
rich moist gardening soil
dank unpleasantly damp and cold;
Inside the hut, the walls were cold, dank, and rather slimy.
humid with a relatively high level of moisture in the air;
the humid swamps of Florida
unpleasantly hot and humid weather
sodden extremely wet and heavy with retained moisture;
Emergency workers watched warily over the weak and sodden dike.
saturated soaked with moisture;
There is no indication that farmers would be able to get into the saturated fields even if the weather is becoming drier.
soaking very wet, especially because of being rained on;
He came in from the downpour with soaking clothes and shoes.
I'm soaking - there's never a cab to be had when it's raining.
sopping (informal) thoroughly and unpleasantly wet;
a tangle of sopping hair |
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