Wet usually implies saturation but may suggest a covering of a surface with water or something (such as paint) not yet dry. To wet is to moisten in any manner with water or other liquid To wet or dampen a cloth Drench suggests wetting completely as by a downpour A heavy rain drenched the fields. Covered in water or another liquid
Wet paint, ink, or a similar substance has not had time… If something is wet, it is covered in water, rain, sweat, tears, or another liquid He towelled his wet hair I lowered myself to the water's edge, getting my feet wet My gloves were soaking wet. Definition of wet adjective in oxford advanced learner's dictionary
To make (a bed or one's clothes) wet by urinating. Some common synonyms of wet are damp, dank, humid, and moist While all these words mean covered or more or less soaked with liquid, wet usually implies saturation but may suggest a covering of a surface with water or something (such as paint) not yet dry. The bottle must have leaked because the bag's all wet Keep the soil moist but not wet They ran barefoot along the wet beach
Don't let the camera get wet. Wet wet wet are a scottish soft rock band formed in 1982 They had a number of hits on the uk charts and around the world in the 1980s and 1990s, becoming best known for their 1994 cover of the troggs ' 1960s hit love is all around, which was used on the soundtrack to the film four weddings and a funeral The song was an international success, and spent 15 weeks at the top of the uk singles. The term ‘wet’ was originally used by mrs thatcher, who meant it in the old sense of ‘soppy’, as in ‘what do you mean the unions won't like it, jim
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