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.
   • Antonym: dry

   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.
   • Antonym: dry

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

Antonyms

• dry