Meanings
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adj
Covered with or full of water or another liquid.
Don't sit down; the bench is still wet from the rain.
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adj
Not yet dry.
Be careful, the paint is still wet.
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3
verb
To make something wet.
Wet the cloth before you wipe the table.
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4
noun
Wetness caused by water or rain.
Drops of wet gleamed on the window.
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Etymology
From Middle English wet (“wet, moistened”), wett, wette, past participle of Middle English weten (“to wet”), from Old English wǣtan (“to wet, moisten, water”), from Proto-West Germanic *wātijan, from Proto-Germanic *wētijaną (“to wet, make wet”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water, wet”) (also the source of water). Cognate with Scots weit, wete (“to wet”), Saterland Frisian wäitje (“to wet; drench”), Icelandic væta (“to wet”). Compare also Middle English weet (“wet”), from Old English wǣt (“wet, moist, rainy”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāt, from Proto-Germanic *wētaz (“wet, moist”), relat…