Wet

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1. Adjective form

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.

2. Adjective form

Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season.

3. Adjective form

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.

4. Adjective form

Refreshed with liquor; drunk.

5. Adjective

Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.

6. Adjective

Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.

7. Adjective

A dram; a drink.

8. Verb form

of Wet

9. Verb

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.

10. Noun

wetness caused by water; "drops of wet gleamed on the window"
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
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