Definition of Wet

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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

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

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
William Faulkner

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.
Jeff Foxworthy

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

The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.
Paula Abdul

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

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev

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

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
Aeschylus

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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