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Definition of Wet
Wet

Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table.

Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season.

Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed.

Refreshed with liquor; drunk.

Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.

Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.

A dram; a drink.

of Wet

To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth.

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Wet Quotations

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Thomas Carlyle

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
Douglas Adams

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
Will Rogers

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
Aeschylus

Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.
Art Garfunkel

Wet Translations

wet in Afrikaans is nat
wet in Dutch is nat
wet in French is humide, humecter
wet in Italian is umido, inumidire, bagnato
wet in Latin is madidus
wet in Portuguese is molhado
wet in Spanish is mojado, humadecer


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