WET DOWN Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

wet down

verb

Definition of wet down

as in to wet

to make wet it will be easier to clean up if you wet down the surfaces first the stylist began by wetting down my hair

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Recent Examples of wet down This slight odor is simply the scent of wet down and will go away once your bedding is dry. — Kate Van Pelt, The Spruce, 28 Apr. 2026 So Tudhope's team needed a way to wet down the roads, insert the Monza backdrop into footage shot at Silverstone, and add the actors. — Sarah Rodman, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Dec. 2025 If hygienists clean it up properly with HEPA vacuuming and wetting down surfaces with sponges or hoses to keep the particles from reentering the air, then risk should theoretically stay low. — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 July 2025 Ashcraft then started wetting down the roof of her family’s home until they were ordered to evacuate. — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for wet down

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Crumble up and wet a small piece, then gently rub it over spots and stains.

— Rae Ford, Martha Stewart, 13 Sep. 2026
Havenith said deliberately wetting clothing can provide evaporative cooling, including for older adults who may not sweat as effectively.

— Aya Diab, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of wet

Verb

Workers and employers are drowning in their health insurance premiums.

— Bob Herman, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
And three, sometimes four, of those many waking hours are spent in the car — bouncing from home to school to her second or third job and home again — with music at full blast to drown out the babble of anxiety, most of it financial.

— Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of drown

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At high tide, the waves wash into his living room, depositing saltwater treasures and unlikely new friends.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026
The result is a single zone that can wash, chop, drain and dry without a cook ever moving to a new surface.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of wash

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Nowhere was that fact clearer than after each concert in the casino where rivers of black Metallica T-shirts flooded the pit.

— Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2026
But suddenly everything will change, and clouds will come in, and in 10 to 15 minutes, rain will start and flood everywhere.

— William Earl, Variety, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of flood

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