wet vs whet
wet
Definitions
adjective
- very drunk
- containing moisture or volatile components
- covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
- supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages
- producing or secreting milk
verb
- make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating
- cause to become wet
noun
- 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.
whet
Definitions
verb
- make keen or more acute
- 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.
It is a system that is alive, whether or not it possesses all the attributes needed for an organism.
Whether you live in the suburbs or in the vital enclaves of a Little India, you are a part of America and American life.
