wet
/wɛt/ verb C2- To cover or impregnate with liquid.
- To make or become wet.
- To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination. · Johnny wets the bed several times a week.· She was laughing so hard she wet her pants.
- To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
- To celebrate by drinking alcohol. · to wet the baby’s head
- To kill or seriously injure.
He/she/it wets · Past wet · Past participle wet · -ing form wetting
Verb forms
- Base form
- wet
- He/she/it
- wets
- Past
- wet
- Past participle
- wet
- -ing form
- wetting
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.
A little gypsy wind came down it to meet them, laden with the spicy perfume of young dew-wet ferns.
There was no help for it; Anne, clinging to Gilbert Blythe’s hand, scrambled down into the dory, where she sat, drabbled and furious, in the stern with her arms full of dripping shawl and wet crepe.
There were many marks of footsteps upon the wet clayey soil, but since the police had been coming and going over it, I was unable to see how my companion could hope to learn anything from it.
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