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  1. adjective Covered or soaked with a liquid, such as water.
  2. adjective Not yet dry or firm: wet paint.
  3. adjective Stored or preserved in liquid.
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  • I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea steaming like a wet wash. —  The Fall
  • I picked my way out to the farthest place I could stand without getting my feet too wet, and watched the swirling, crashing water 4. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2008
  • The ten minutes you were actually in the shower included only five minutes of actual running water: get wet, then soap and shampoo, and then try to rinse off. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2008
  • My clothing was thin and illy calculated to defend me from the continually drenching rains with which I was daily completely wet, and at night with nothing but my wet blanket to cover me, I had to sleep on the naked ground, and generally without a shelter, save such as nature had provided. —  A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
  • I wanted someone who was at the party and who was wet, and who shouldn't have been wet. —  Christie, Agatha - Hallowe'en 2
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wet:   wets ·  wetting
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English wǣt; see wed-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. English dial, and Scots also weet and wat; from Middle English wet, weet, wat, from Anglo-Saxon wǣt = OFies. wēt, weit = Icelandic vātr = Swedish våt = Danish vaad, wet, moist; akin to Anglo-Saxon wæter, etc., water, and to Goth, wato, etc., water: see water.
  2. English dial, and Scots also weet and wat; from Middle English wet, wete, wæte, wate, from Anglo-Saxon wǣta, masculine, wæte, feminine (= Icelandic Swedish vǣta = Danish væde), wet, moisture, from wǣt, wet: see wet, a.
  3. from Middle English weten, wǣten (preterit wette, watte, past participle wet), from Anglo-Saxon wǣtan, wētan, ge-wētan (= Icelandic Swedish væta = Danish ræde), wet, moisten, from wǣt, wet: see wet, a.
 

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