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wet vs whet

wet

Definitions

adjective

  1. very drunk
  2. containing moisture or volatile components
  3. covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
  4. supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages
  5. producing or secreting milk
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verb

  1. make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating
  2. cause to become wet

noun

  1. wetness caused by water

Examples

The aircraft descended into a wetland area and had since been forgotten about as it sank below the surface.

The extended period of damage was probably brought on by the cool/wet growing conditions.

Sefelt has pulled back halfway normal, swelling up and down with big wet, rattling breaths.

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whet

Definitions

verb

  1. make keen or more acute
  2. sharpen by rubbing, as on a whetstone

Examples

A lot of the foods that we connect with African-Americans, whether totemically, whether positively or negatively, are indeed and in fact foods from the continent.

Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good-will and kind conduct more speedily changed than by invidious jealousies and uncandid imputations, whether expressed or implied.

It is a system that is alive, whether or not it possesses all the attributes needed for an organism.

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