wet
/wɛt/ noun C2- Liquid or moisture.
- Rainy weather. · Don't go out in the wet.· Come in out of the wet.
- An alcoholic drink.
- One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
- A tyre for use in wet weather.
- A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.
Plural wets
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.
“As wet as ever,” said Alice in a melancholy tone: “it doesn’t seem to dry me at all.”
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.
The night was so wet that no one was about, so Charpentier dragged the body of his victim into the empty house.
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