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wet

  [wet] adjective, wet⋅ter, wet⋅test, noun, verb, wet or wet⋅ted, wet⋅ting.
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–adjective
1. moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid: wet hands.
2. in a liquid form or state: wet paint.
3. characterized by the presence or use of water or other liquid.
4. moistened or dampened with rain; rainy: Wet streets make driving hazardous.
5. allowing or favoring the sale of alcoholic beverages: a wet town.
6. characterized by frequent rain, mist, etc.: the wet season.
7. laden with a comparatively high percent of moisture or vapor, esp. water vapor: There was a wet breeze from the west.
8. Informal.
a. intoxicated.
b. marked by drinking: a wet night.
9. using water or done under or in water, as certain chemical, mining, and manufacturing processes.
–noun
10. something that is or makes wet, as water or other liquid; moisture: The wet from the earth had made the basement unlivable.
11. damp weather; rain: Stay out of the wet as much as possible.
12. a person in favor of allowing the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
13. Informal: Disparaging and Offensive. a wetback.
–verb (used with object)
14. to make (something) wet, as by moistening or soaking (sometimes fol. by through or down): Wet your hands before soaping them.
15. to urinate on or in: The dog had wet the carpet.
–verb (used without object)
16. to become wet (sometimes fol. by through or down): Dampness may cause plastered walls to wet. My jacket has wet through.
17. (of animals and children) to urinate.
—Idioms
18. all wet, Informal. completely mistaken; in error: He insisted that our assumptions were all wet.
19. wet behind the ears, immature; naive; green: She was too wet behind the ears to bear such responsibilities.
20. wet one's whistle. whistle (def. 16).
21. wet out, to treat (fabric) with a wetting agent to increase its absorbency.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME wett, ptp. of weten, OE wǣtan to wet; r. ME weet, OE wǣt, c. OFris wēt, ON vātr; akin to water

Related forms:
wetly, adverb
wetness, noun
wetter, noun
wettish, adjective

Synonyms:
1. dampened, drenched. 4. misty, drizzling. 7. humid. 10. wetness, humidity, dampness, dankness. 11. drizzle. 14. Wet, drench, saturate, soak imply moistening something. To wet is to moisten in any manner with water or other liquid: to wet or dampen a cloth. Drench suggests wetting completely as by a downpour: A heavy rain drenched the fields. Saturate implies wetting to the limit of absorption: to saturate a sponge. To soak is to keep in a liquid for a time: to soak beans before baking.

Antonyms:
1. dry.
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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wet   (wět)   
adj.   wet·ter, wet·test

  1. Covered or soaked with a liquid, such as water.

  2. Not yet dry or firm: wet paint.

  3. Stored or preserved in liquid.

  4. Used or prepared with water or other liquids.

    1. Rainy, humid, or foggy: wet weather.

    2. Characterized by frequent or heavy precipitation: a wet climate.

  6. Informal Allowing the sale of alcoholic beverages: a wet county.

  7. Characterized by the use or presence of water or liquid reagents: wet chemistry.

n.  

  1. Something that wets; moisture.

  2. Rainy or snowy weather: go out into the wet.

  3. Informal One who supports the legality of the production and sale of alcoholic beverages.

v.   wet or wet·ted, wet·ting, wets

v.   tr.

  1. To make wet; dampen: wet a sponge.

  2. To make (a bed or one's clothes) wet by urinating.

v.   intr.

  1. To become wet.

  2. To urinate.


[Middle English, from Old English wǣt; see wed-1 in Indo-European roots.]
Synonyms: These adjectives mean covered with or saturated with liquid. Wet describes not only what is covered or soaked (a wet sponge) but also what is not yet dry (wet paint). Damp and moist both mean slightly wet, but damp often implies an unpleasant clamminess: a cold, damp cellar; a moist breeze.
Dank emphasizes disagreeable, often unhealthful wetness: a dank cave.
Humid refers to an unpleasantly high degree of moisture in the atmosphere: hot, humid weather.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
wet

  1. mod.
    alcohol intoxicated. : He's been drinking since noon and is pretty wet.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

wet  (adj.)
O.E. wæt "moist, liquid," from P.Gmc. *wætaz (cf. O.Fris. wet ). Also from the O.N. form, vatr. All related to water. The verb is O.E. wætan "to be wet." Wet blanket "person who has a dispiriting effect" is recorded from 1879, from use of blankets drenched in water to smother fires (the phrase is attested in this literal sense from 1662). All wet "in the wrong" is recorded from 1923, Amer.Eng.; earlier simply wet "ineffectual," and perhaps ult. from slang meaning "drunken" (c.1700). Wet-nurse is from 1620; wet dream is from 1851; wetback "illegal Mexican immigrant to the U.S." is attested from c.1924, from notion of wading the Rio Grande.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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