wet

adjective

1. 1.

   Covered or soaked with a liquid such as water

2. 2.

   Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.

3. 3.

   Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.

4. 4.

   Of weather or a time period: rainy.

5. 5.

   Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.

6. 6.

   aviation

   Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.

noun

1. 1.

   Liquid or moisture.

2. 2.

   Rainy weather.

3. 3.

   Australia

   Rainy season. (often capitalized)

4. 4.

   colloquial

   An alcoholic drink.

5. 5.

   uscolloquial

   One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.

6. 6.

   A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia, especially those in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.

verb

1. 1.

   transitive

   To cover or impregnate with liquid.

2. 2.

   Make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating

   “This eight year old boy still wets his bed.”

3. 3.

   Cause to become wet

4. 4.

   transitiveintransitive

   To make or become wet.

5. 5.

   transitive

   To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.

6. 6.

   transitiveinformal

   To celebrate by drinking alcohol.

Compound terms

Established multiword terms.

• wet blanketnounCompound term

  Someone who spoils the pleasure of others.

• wet cellnounCompound term

  A primary voltaic cell having a liquid electrolyte.

• wet dreamnounCompound term

  An erotic dream (usually at night) accompanied by the (nocturnal) emission of semen.

• wet flynounCompound term

  Fisherman's fly that floats under the surface of the water.

• wet lungnounCompound term

  Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.

• wet nursenounCompound term

  A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.