(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L.As a counterpoint to the definitions that appear in Fard's answer (by way of Longman's Dictionary, I offer these definitions from Merriam-Webster's Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary (2003):ĭamp adj. This made Dorothy so very angry that she picked up the bucket of water that stood near and dashed it over the Witch, wetting her from head to foot. (Aluminum-Bearing Site on Mars Draws NASA Visitor, NASA) Montmorillonite forms when basalt is altered under wet and slightly acidic conditions. (The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) She had to eat to live, and when she got her feet wet, she caught cold.īut the lower edge of the sun is wet, and it will be beneath the sea ere long. (Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)īut this he declined, as he was dirty and wet. I had dropped asleep at last, when I was awakened suddenly by something wet being pressed against my face, and by two warm arms which were cast round me. Two of her tears wetted his eyes and they grew clear again, and he could see with them as before. She had heard and seen it all and felt some curiosity to know whether the wet walk of this morning had produced any. I have cried over the good Sister's letter till I can feel it wet against my bosom, where it lies. Wetting (the act of making something wet) ![]() Wetter (a workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process) Irrigate water (supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams)īesprinkle sparge sprinkle (scatter with liquid wet lightly)ĭry (remove the moisture from and make dry) ![]() Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wet"):īedew (cover with drops of dew or as with dew)ĭouse dowse drench soak sop souse (cover with liquid pour liquid onto) Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.Īlter change modify (cause to change make different cause a transformation) Wetter (someone suffering from enuresis someone who urinates while asleep in bed) Sense 2 Make make water micturate pass water pee pee-pee piddle piss puddle relieve oneself spend a penny take a leak urinate wee wee-wee (eliminate urine) Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care This eight year old boy still wets his bed Make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating Supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beveragesĭry (opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages) Sense 6Ĭontaining moisture or volatile componentsĭry (lacking moisture or volatile components) Wetness (the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water)) Sense 4įresh (having recently calved and therefore able to give milk) Wetness (the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water))ĭry (free from liquid or moisture lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water or no longer wet) Sodden soppy (wet through and through thoroughly wet)Ĭlammy dank (unpleasantly cool and humid)īoggy marshy miry mucky muddy quaggy sloppy sloughy soggy squashy swampy waterlogged ((of soil) soft and watery) Humid (containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor) Muggy steamy sticky (hot or warm and humid) Reeking watery (wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears) ![]() Rheumy (moist, damp, wet (especially of air)) Sloppy (wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material) Rainy showery ((of weather) wet by periods of rain) Steaming steamy (filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist) Sticky (moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body) Tacky ((of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch) Washed (wet as from washing sometimes used in combination) Besotted blind drunk blotto cockeyed crocked fuddled loaded pie-eyed pissed pixilated plastered slopped sloshed smashed soaked soused sozzled squiffy stiff tight wetĭrunk gone inebriated intoxicated ripped (stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol))Īrgot cant jargon lingo patois slang vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)) Sense 2Ĭonsisting of or trading in alcoholic liquorĪlcoholic (characteristic of or containing alcohol) Sense 3Ĭovered or soaked with a liquid such as water
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