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wet vs dry

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 blame for this month's wet weather lies with the jet stream winds a few miles high.

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

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dry

Definitions

adjective

  1. lacking moisture or volatile components
  2. used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones
  3. lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless
  4. not shedding tears
  5. humorously sarcastic or mocking
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noun

  1. a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages

verb

  1. remove the moisture from and make dry
  2. become dry or drier

Examples

Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.

My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.

However Its normally an extra mit full of cash in the pot from me as I try and turbo speed goffer the place dry This doesn't sound like a good deal.

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