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Wettest

Wet \Wet\ (w[e^]t), a. [Compar. Wetter; superl. Wettest.] [OE. wet, weet, AS. w[=ae]t; akin to OFries. w[=e]t, Icel. v[=a]tr, Sw. v[*a]t, Dan. vaad, and E. water. [root]137. See Water.]

  1. Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table. ``Wet cheeks.''
    --Shak.

  2. Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season. ``Wet October's torrent flood.''
    --Milton.

  3. (Chem.) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed.

  4. Refreshed with liquor; drunk. [Slang]
    --Prior.

    Wet blanket, Wet dock, etc. See under Blanket, Dock, etc.

    Wet goods, intoxicating liquors. [Slang]

    Syn: Nasty; humid; damp; moist. See Nasty.

Wiktionary
wettest

a. (en-superlativewet)

WordNet
wet
  1. adj. covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet paint"; "wet weather" [ant: dry]

  2. supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "a wet candidate running on a wet platform"; "a wet county" [ant: dry]

  3. producing or secreting milk; "a wet nurse"; "a wet cow"; "lactating cows" [syn: lactating] [ant: dry]

  4. consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor; "a wet cargo"; "a wet canteen"

  5. very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tight, tipsy]

  6. [also: wetting, wetted, wettest, wetter]

wet
  1. n. wetness caused by water; "drops of wet gleamed on the window" [syn: moisture]

  2. [also: wetting, wetted, wettest, wetter]

wet
  1. v. cause to become wet; "Wet your face" [ant: dry]

  2. make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating; "This eight year old boy still wets his bed"

  3. [also: wetting, wetted, wettest, wetter]

wettest

See wet

Usage examples of "wettest".

Barenna, I throw you into the fountain, in the deepest part, where it is wettest, just there by the marble dolphin.

The western part was the wettest of the entire range and carried a dense cover of forests, and the lowest snowline.

Placed at a vantage point above the densest, dirtiest, wettest eight thousand feet of earthly atmosphere, the small telescope on its tripod showed the craters of the moon with merciless clarity.

Next door to it was a small two-storey stable with a boarded loft and thick stone walls that kept dry in the wettest of weathers.

It began to be evident that we and our bed were probably the wettest objects in the woods.

Louisiana had been rated as one of the wettest states with an annual rainfall of 56 inches, although the southern section had recorded receiving over a hundred inches of rain periodically.

The old lady sat down for one minute in the wettest chair she could find, and cuddled him close up to her.

He saw the twins of the Calla lying sprawled like corpses in the thickest, wettest part of the rice, with the muck oozing through their shirts and pants.

It was available on most coniferous trees, and even in the wettest of conditions it was usually dry.

You brought me directly from my wettest climax of recent memory to a new one simply by virtue of your magnificent example.

She remained perfectly still until the carriage had turned into the drive, and then, without the least discomposure of countenance, slipped off her shoes, left them on the ground, and walked deliberately in the same direction through the wettest of the wet grass.

It had rained practically every day in March, a torrential climax to the wettest winter Southern California had had in years, causing mudslides and other calamities all over the place.

On the other hand, of the three supposed miscreants, he was definitely the wettest behind the ears .

Their visit to the Lake District took place in what proved to be the wettest August on record.

With the help of magic, even the greenest, wettest wood could be coaxed to burn.