单词 | wet |
释义 | wet (once / 135 pages) nadjv WORD FAMILY wet: wetly, wetness, wets, wetted, wetter, wettest, wetting+/wetter: wetters/wetting: wettings USAGE EXAMPLESBartenders wet the inside of the glass with small water spritzers to assist the physical separation of liquid and gas. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) “I am getting my feet wet,” Phelps said with a grin. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) It likened sex to hanging out wet washing. The Guardian(Nov 30, 2016) 1n wetness caused by water drops of wet gleamed on the window Syn|Hyper moisture wetness the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water) 2adj covered or soaked with a liquid such as water a wet bathing suit wet sidewalks wet weather Syn|Ant bedewed, dewy wet with dew besprentsprinkled over boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged(of soil) soft and watery clammy, dankunpleasantly cool and humid damp, dampish, moistslightly wet sodden, soppywet through and through; thoroughly wet drippy, drizzlywet with light rain humidcontaining or characterized by a great deal of water vapor mistywet with mist muggy, steamy, stickyhot or warm and humid reeking, waterywet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears rheumymoist, damp, wet (especially of air) sloppywet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material rainy, showery(of weather) wet by periods of rain steaming, steamyfilled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist stickymoist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body tacky(of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch undriedstill wet or moist washedwet as from washing; sometimes used in combination wateryfilled with water dry free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbakeddried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight air-driedmade dry by contact with unheated air air-drynot giving off moisture on exposure to the air arid, waterlesslacking sufficient water or rainfall bone dry, bone-drywithout a trace of moisture; as dry as a weathered bone desiccated, dried-outthoroughly dried out driednot still wet dried-updepleted of water dried-up, sear, sere, shriveled, shrivelled, withered(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture dry-shodhaving or keeping the feet or shoes dry kiln-drieddried in a kiln rainlesslacking rain semiaridsomewhat arid semi-drysomewhat dry thirstyneeding moisture 3adj containing moisture or volatile components wet paint Ant dry lacking moisture or volatile components 4adj producing or secreting milk a wet nurse a wet cow Syn|Ant lactating fresh having recently calved and therefore able to give milk dry not producing milk milklesshaving no milk 5adj consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor a wet cargo a wet canteen Syn alcoholic characteristic of or containing alcohol 6adj supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages a wet candidate running on a wet platform a wet county Ant dry opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages 7adj very drunk Syn drunk, inebriated, intoxicated stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) 8v cause to become wet Wet your face Ant|Hypo|Hyper dry, dry out remove the moisture from and make dry bedew cover with drops of dew or as with dew douse, dowse, drench, soak, sop, sousecover with liquid; pour liquid onto dampen, moisten, washmake moist irrigate, watersupply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams besprinkle, sparge, sprinklescatter with liquid; wet lightly squirtwet with a spurt of liquid douse, dowsewet thoroughly humidify, moisturise, moisturizemake (more) humid brinesoak in brine bedraggle, dragglemake wet and dirty, as from rain batesoak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments retplace (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue hose, hose downwater with a hose bastecover with liquid before cooking flushcause to flow or flood with or as if with water flush, sluiceirrigate with water from a sluice hushrun water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals squishput (a liquid) into a container or another place by means of a squirting action alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 9v make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating This eight year old boy still wets his bed |
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