Another word for wet
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Adjective
Covered with or full of liquid
- Soaked; sopping.
- Rainy.
- Sentimental; maudlin.
- Thoroughly soaked; drenched.
- Extremely; very:
- Saturated or sodden with moisture; soaked:
- Lacking spirit; dull:
- Humid; sultry:
- Thoroughly soaked; saturated.
- Soggy and heavy from improper cooking; doughy.
- Expressionless, stupid, or dull, especially from drink.
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Verb
To make thoroughly wet
- To plunge into a liquid.
- To make soaking wet; drench.
- To steep in a mixture, as in pickling.
- To dip, soak, or drench in a liquid; saturate.
- To take up by absorption:
- A piece of food soaked or dipped in a liquid.
- Thoroughly soaked; saturated.
- Soggy and heavy from improper cooking; doughy.
- Expressionless, stupid, or dull, especially from drink.
- To immerse in liquid for a period of time:
- To make thoroughly wet or saturated:
- To absorb (liquid, for example) through pores or interstices:
- To soak or fill so that no more liquid may be absorbed:
- To supply with the maximum that can be held or contained; fill thoroughly:
- To cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance.
- To wet through and through; soak.
- To administer a large oral dose of liquid medicine to (an animal).
- To provide with something in great abundance; surfeit:
- To wet thoroughly; drench.
- To put out (a light or fire); extinguish:
- A thorough drenching.
See also:To make moist
- To cleanse, using water or other liquid, usually with soap, detergent, or bleach, by immersing, dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing:
- To soak, rinse out, and remove (dirt or stain) with water or other liquid:
- To make moist or wet; drench:
- To make or become moist.
- To make damp.
- To deaden, restrain, or depress:
- To soundproof.
- To take a bath.
- To go into the water for swimming or other recreation.
- To become immersed in or as if in liquid.
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Another word for wet
Modifier
Covered or soaked with liquid
- Thoroughly soaked; saturated.
- Soggy and heavy from improper cooking; doughy.
- Expressionless, stupid, or dull, especially from drink.
- Heavy and sluggish in the water because of flooding, as in the hold:
- Soaked or saturated with water:
- Unable to hold or contain more; full.
- Soaked with moisture; drenched.
- Combined with or containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.
- The act or sound of something falling in drops.
- The fat and juices exuded from roasting meat, often used in making gravy.
- Consisting of or resembling slime; viscous:
- Covered with or exuding slime:
- Morally repulsive, as in being dishonest or corrupt.
- Disagreeably damp or humid:
- Filled with, consisting of, or soaked with water; wet or soggy:
- Containing too much water; diluted:
- Suggestive of water, as in being thin, pale, or liquid:
- Moist with or as if with dew:
- Accompanied by dew:
- Suggestive of the freshness or purity of dew, as in innocence or naiveté:
- Warm and extremely humid.
- Saturated or sodden with moisture; soaked:
- Lacking spirit; dull:
- Humid; sultry:
- the act or an instance of making or becoming soaked
- very wet; drenched
- Slightly wet:
- Humid:
- Dejected; depressed.
- Slightly wet; damp:
- Humid:
- Characterized by considerable rainfall; rainy:
Rainy
- Consisting of or marked by mist:
- Obscured or clouded by or as if by mist:
- Vague; hazy:
- Full of or covered with clouds; overcast.
- Of or like a cloud or clouds.
- Marked with indistinct masses or streaks:
- Present participle of drizzle.
- Subject to, characterized by, or affected by storms; tempestuous.
- Characterized by violent emotions, passions, speech, or actions:
- Disagreeably moist, sticky, and cold to the touch:
- Damp and unpleasant:
- Uneasy; apprehensive:
- Slightly wet:
- Humid:
- Dejected; depressed.
- Full of or surrounded by fog.
- Resembling or suggestive of fog.
- Clouded or blurred by or as if by fog; vague:
- Containing or characterized by a high amount of water or water vapor:
- Full of or covered with mud.
- Not bright or pure:
- Not clear; cloudy, as with sediment:
- Causing or tending to cause sliding or slipping:
- Tending to slip, as from one's grasp:
- Not trustworthy; elusive or tricky:
- Abounding in or covered with snow:
- Subject to snow:
- Resembling or suggesting snow, especially in whiteness:
*Favoring or permitting liquor
- Related to or resulting from alcohol.
- Containing or preserved in alcohol.
- Suffering from alcoholism.
- Affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed.
- Affording unobstructed passage or view:
- Having no protecting or concealing cover:
*Mistaken
- Mistaken or incorrect; not accurate.
Verb
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- To propel or scatter (a fluid) about in flying masses.
- To scatter fluid onto (a surface) in flying masses; wet, stain, or soil with flying fluid.
- To cause (something) to scatter fluid in flying masses:
- To immerse in liquid for a period of time:
- To make thoroughly wet or saturated:
- To absorb (liquid, for example) through pores or interstices:
- To make damp.
- To deaden, restrain, or depress:
- To soundproof.
- To scatter in drops or particles:
- To scatter drops or particles on:
- To intersperse with something as if by scattering:
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Synonym Study
- Humid implies such permeation of the air with moisture as to make for discomfort a hot, humid day
- Moist implies slight but, unlike damp , often desirable wetness moist air
- Dank suggests a disagreeable, chilling, unwholesome dampness a dank fog
- Damp implies slight, usually undesirable or unpleasant wetness a damp room
- Wet is applied to something covered or soaked with water or other liquid wet streets, clothes, etc. or to something not yet dry wet paint
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