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Adjective: wet (wetter,wettest)  wet
  1. Covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
    "a wet bathing suit"; "wet pavements"; "wet weather"
     
  2. Containing moisture or volatile components
    "wet paint"
     
  3. Supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages
    "a wet candidate running on a wet platform"; "a wet county"
     
  4. Producing or secreting milk
    "a wet nurse"; "a wet cow"
    - lactating
     
  5. Consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor
    "a wet cargo"; "a wet canteen"
     
  6. Very drunk
    - besotted [archaic], blind drunk, blotto, crocked [N. Amer], cockeyed, fuddled, loaded [N. Amer], pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, stonkered [Austral, NZ], pickled, bombed, mullered [Brit], three sheets to the wind, liquored up [N. Amer], stewed, wasted, tanked up, trashed, bladdered [Brit], hammered, paralytic [Brit], legless [Brit], out of it [Brit], trolleyed [Brit], juiced [N. Amer], stinko, bevvied [Brit], drunk, pixillated, squiffed
Verb: wet (wet,wetting, also wetted)  wet
  1. Cause to become wet
    "Wet your face"
     
  2. Make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating
    "This eight year old boy still wets his bed"
Noun: wet  wet
  1. Wetness caused by water
    "drops of wet gleamed on the window"
    - moisture

Sounds like: whet

Derived forms: wetted, wet, wetting, wetter, wettest, wets

See also: alcoholic, bedewed, besprent [archaic], boggy, clammy, damp, dampish, dank, dewy, drippy, drizzly, drunk, fresh, humid, inebriated, intoxicated, marshy, miry, misty, mizzly, moist, mucky, muddy, muggy, quaggy, rainy, reeking, rheumy, showery, sloppy, sloughy, sodden, soggy, soppy [N. Amer], squashy, squelchy, steaming, steamy, sticky, swampy, tacky, undried, washed, waterlogged, watery, wetness, wetter, wetting

Type of: alter, change, make, make water, micturate, modify, pass water, pee, pee-pee, piddle, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny [Brit], take a leak, urinate, wee [Brit], wee-wee, wetness, widdle [Brit]

Antonym: dry

Encyclopedia: Wet