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Wet

adjective

(compar. wetter; superl. wettest)

1.

Covered or soaked with a liquid such as water. "Wet sidewalks" , "Wet weather"

2.

Containing moisture or volatile components.

3.

Supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages. "A wet county"

4.

Producing or secreting milk. Synonym: lactating. "A wet cow" , "Lactating cows"

5.

Consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor. "A wet canteen"

6.

Very drunk. Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight.

verb

(past & past part. wet, rarely wetted; pres. part. wetting)

1.

Cause to become wet.

2.

Make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating.

noun

1.

Wetness caused by water. Synonym: moisture.

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"Wet" Quotes from Famous Books

... came slowly into the room, blinking at the light after the darkness of the woods outside. He was wet to the skin and shaking with cold. He gave a grunt of delight at the sight of the fire, then crossed and stood before it, warming his outstretched hands. As though frightened, the lad looked furtively from one young woman ...

— Madge Morton's Secret • Amy D. V. Chalmers

... feet away. He made for it through the driving rain and wind, stepped upon the narrow porch, discovered immediately that it gave him no protection at all, and knocked loudly upon the shut door. He got no answer. Trying it with a wet hand he perceived that it was unlocked; and without more ado, he opened it ...

— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... Providence, instead of dashing my brains out he stepped on one side, and I received no further hurt. After the roar of the battle had ceased, while the solemn stars looked down like eyes of pitying angels on the field of slaughter, I managed to crawl to the road-side and wet my parched lips with some muddy water that lay in a cattle track. In the morning Trueman found me and brought me off the field, and here I am laid up for one while. I pray God I may never see another battle. It is a sight to make ...

— Neville Trueman the Pioneer Preacher • William Henry Withrow

... Siens of the new Wood, growing out of the earth, euen so high as it possible may be. If the trees that you would propagate be somewhat thicke, and thereby the harder to ply, and somewhat stiffe to lay in the pit: then you may wet the stocke almost to the midst, betwixt the roote and the wreathing place, and so with gentle handling of it, bow downe into the pit the wood which the grafts haue put forth, and that in as round a compasse as you can, keeping you from breaking of it: afterward lay ouer the cut, with ...

— A New Orchard And Garden • William Lawson

... my might. Our reverses are preferable to success. The Reformation has an object to gain in being attacked; do you hear me, dolt? It cannot hurt us to be defeated, whereas Catholicism is at an end if we should win but a single battle. Ha! what are my lieutenants?—rags, wet rags instead of men! white-haired cravens! baptized apes! O God, grant me ten years more of life! If I die too soon the cause of true religion is lost in the hands of such boobies! You are as great ...

— Catherine de' Medici • Honore de Balzac

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