What is another word for wets?

Pronunciation: [wˈɛts] (IPA)

The word "wets" refers to something that becomes wet or moist. However, there are several other synonyms for this word that can help expand your vocabulary. Some of these synonyms include damp, moistened, soaked, drenched, saturated, watered, and humid. Each of these words can be used to describe something that has been made wet by water or another liquid. For instance, you could say that the grass was damp after a heavy rainstorm, or that your clothes were soaked after standing in the rain. Using synonyms like these can help you add variety and interest to your writing.

Usage examples for Wets

He crops his hair, and, I should think, wets it two or three times a day for fear people should see that it has a natural wave in it.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
France was ripe for Constable at that memorable Salon of 1824, simple, straight-seeing Constable, who painted his Suffolk parish, not the tumbling ruins of Italy, and who showed that "the sun shines, that the wind blows, that water wets, and that air and light are everywhere."
"Constable"
C. Lewis Hind
I don't know-and every few minutes the spray comes over and wets the paper and incidentally myself.
"Olivia in India"
O. Douglas

Famous quotes with Wets

  • Story on Story of wonderful hills and streams Their blue-green haze locked in clouds! Mists brush my thin cap with moisture Dew wets my coat of plaited straw On my feet I wear pilgrim's sandals My hand holds a stick of old rattan Though I look down again on the dusty world What is that land of dreams to me?
    Hanshan

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