Word Finder - wet

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Liquid or moisture.

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Rainy weather.

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Don't go out in the wet.

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Rainy season. (often capitalized)

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(UK politics) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.

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An alcoholic drink.

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One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.

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(in the plural) A tyre for use in wet weather.

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To cover or impregnate with liquid.

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To accidentally urinate in or on.

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Johnny wets the bed several times a week.

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To make or become wet.

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(soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.

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To celebrate by drinking alcohol.

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To kill or seriously injure.

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Wet 'em up!

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Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.

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Water is wet.

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• wetting

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Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.

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I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.

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• damp
• saturated
• soaked

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Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.

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Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.

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This pen’s a wet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper.

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Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.

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Of weather or a time period: rainy.

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It’s going to be wet tomorrow.

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• damp
• raining
• rainy

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Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.

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That guy’s wet; after all, he just started yesterday.

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• green
• wet behind the ears

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(of women) Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.

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He got me all wet.

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• horny
• moist

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Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.

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Don’t be so wet.

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• drip
• feeble
• hopeless
• useless

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(retronym) Permitting alcoholic beverages.

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Refreshed with liquor; drunk.

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• inebriated
• soused

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Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.

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Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.

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the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed

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Involving assassination or "wet work".

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a wet affair; a wet job; wet stuff

He wet his pants.

Her face was wet with tears.

You'd better go in and get out of those wet clothes.

Their necks, with their wet, close-clinging manes, looked strangely thin.

He cut her scream short with a wet kiss planted over her lips.

I'm going to get out of these wet clothes.

Why don't you get a wet cloth, Miss Spencer?

Napoleon's short hair was wet and matted on the forehead, but his face, though puffy and yellow, expressed physical satisfaction.

Suddenly, she was flung to the wet floor.

Cynthia was still in the room when he returned, towel wrapped and shaking his wet head.

Her foot slipped on a large wet rock, spilling her face first into the mud.

Their footprints remained in sand wet enough to become packed but not wet enough to be squishy.

Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold.

The officers gladly gathered round him, some on their knees, some squatting Turkish fashion on the wet grass.

The wet nurse supported the coverlet with her chin, while the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy's little red and wrinkled soles and palms.

Rostov, leaning his head on both hands, sat at the table which was scrawled over with figures, wet with spilled wine, and littered with cards.

Prince Andrew touched the head with his hand; even the hair was wet, so profusely had the child perspired.

Natasha raised her head and, kissing her friend on the lips, pressed her wet face against her.

As they left the tavern in the twilight of the dawn, Rostov and Ilyin both glanced under the wet and glistening leather hood of the doctor's cart, from under the apron of which his feet were sticking out, and in the middle of which his wife's nightcap was visible and her sleepy breathing audible.

A little ahead of them walked a peasant guide, wet to the skin and wearing a gray peasant coat and a white knitted cap.

Clothes, saddles, reins, were all wet, slippery, and sodden, like the ground and the fallen leaves that strewed the road.

Denisov, the esaul, and Petya rode silently, following the peasant in the knitted cap who, stepping lightly with outturned toes and moving noiselessly in his bast shoes over the roots and wet leaves, silently led them to the edge of the forest.

Petya took off his wet clothes, gave them to be dried, and at once began helping the officers to fix up the dinner table.

He took off his wet felt cloak in a corner of the room, and without greeting anyone went up to Denisov and began questioning him about the matter in hand.

She shivered, cold and wet.

Tell me what's so important that we have to get all cold and wet, and...

His huge feet splashed through the wet snow, slinging it at the goats.

The last thing she remembered was the wet ground rushing toward her face.

Woodenly, she peeled off her wet clothes and climbed into a hot shower.

He was wet, that much he could determine.

I was afraid it might get wet.

Her grip tightened on the phone involuntarily and it shot out of her wet hand, bouncing once on the ledge before plunging over the bluff.

His rain coat flipped in the breeze, exposing rippling muscles in his thighs as the square toed boots sought and found solid footholds in the wet rock.

Wet, sick and horrified, she wept and retched in turns until the nurse arrived.

She frowned up at him through wet lashes.

She pulled her wet hair back into a braid at her neck and fluffed the loose tendrils at her temples into curls.

Megan snapped her sagging jaw shut and ran to get a wet rag.

She tossed the wet rag at Denton and stood looking on as he wiped the blood from his face.

The sand was soft between his toes, and he made his way to where the sand was moist but not wet.

She opened her eyes to see the floor was wet, marked by yellow signs.

Accustomed to the teens' all but shredding their clothes, she instinctively reached for the stain to feel if it was wet.

Her eyes were closed, the long eyelashes wet from tears.

It never grows in wet boggy places, never in woods, or on or about stumps of trees.

Horsesickness, a kind of malarial fever, which takes an epidemic form in very wet seasons, causes considerable loss.

He had no sooner learnt of the raid in Cape Town than he issued a proclamation through - Sir Jacobus de Wet, the British resident at Pretoria, burg.

Such roofs are not suitable for cold climates, for accumulations of snow might overburden the structure and would also cause the wet to penetrate through any small crevices and under flashings.

The wet season, during which heavy rain falls almost daily, lasts from April to October, coinciding with the south-west monsoon.

June is often wet, but most favourable for the springing crops; July and August are warm, but, excepting two or three days at a time, not uncomfortably so; while the autumn weeks of late August and September are very pleasant.

The elevated plateaus between these ranges are semiarid and inhospitable, and are covered with extensive saline basins, which become lagoons in the wet season and morasses or dry saltpans in the dry season.

The so-called " pampas-grass " (Gynerium argenteum) is not found at all on the dry lands, but in the wet grounds of the south and south-west.