[
US
/ˈwɛt/
]
[ UK /wˈɛt/ ]
[ UK /wˈɛt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- very drunk
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containing moisture or volatile components
wet paint -
covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
wet weather
a wet bathing suit
wet sidewalks -
supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages
a wet candidate running on a wet platform
a wet county -
producing or secreting milk
lactating cows
a wet nurse
a wet cow -
consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor
a wet cargo
a wet canteen
VERB
-
make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating
This eight year old boy still wets his bed -
cause to become wet
Wet your face
NOUN
-
wetness caused by water
drops of wet gleamed on the window
How To Use wet In A Sentence
- The aircraft descended into a wetland area and had since been forgotten about as it sank below the surface. Times, Sunday Times
- The blame for this month's wet weather lies with the jet stream winds a few miles high. Times, Sunday Times
- The extended period of damage was probably brought on by the cool/wet growing conditions.
- Larger butter pieces (not huge, of course, but quite a bit larger than “wet sand”) result in a flakier biscuit. 2009 March | Baking Bites
- Sefelt has pulled back halfway normal, swelling up and down with big wet, rattling breaths.
- During the next patrol, at about 10 p.m., however, our men found fresh footprints on the wet ground.
- The sheriff said the casino owners were elated to get the cash back, even if it was a little wet.
- In some places it is primeval and wet, where streaky barked eucalyptus strive upwards through dripping mists alive with frog croaks.
- This is the northernmost and wettest of the central Asian depressions, remnants of a Tertiary era inland sea, with relict glaciers, glacier lakes and a wide variety of rock types, the result of a long series of successive eras of deposition and orogeny. Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia
- Actually, I was thinking of M&P on top of the CP, as a cover for the paper, but since the water in CP would make it wet to pour on top of the paper, dunno. Microsoft Soap - Set Up
