wet

Pronunciation

• enPR: wĕt
• IPA: /wɛt/
• SAMPA: /wEt/
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Homophones

• whet (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Adjective

Positive wet

Comparative wetter

Superlative wettest

1. If something is wet it has some water or other liquid on it.

   I got completely wet in the rain.

   I don't want to use this towel. It's already wet.

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  A wet web

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  The children are wet

Verb

Plain form wet

Third-person singular wets

Past tense wetted

Past participle wetted

Present participle wetting

(transitive)

1. If you wet something, you put water or some other liquid on it.

   Please try not to wet the bathroom floor when you have a shower.

Antonyms

• dry