as in rains
a steady falling of water from the sky in significant quantity
winced as he walked out into the wet without any protection
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as in drowns
to make wet
you need to wet your hair thoroughly first
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Recent Examples of wets
Longji Cui, The Conversation, 26 Dec. 2025
But the comedy is absolutely something that wets my beak, I'm drawn to it.
—H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Watering from above also wets the foliage, which can lead to fungal diseases or powdery mildew on a mum's leaves.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
Sweat that can’t escape wets a jacket’s layer of insulation and accelerates heat loss.
—Longji Cui, The Conversation, 26 Dec. 2025
But the comedy is absolutely something that wets my beak, I'm drawn to it.
—H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Watering from above also wets the foliage, which can lead to fungal diseases or powdery mildew on a mum's leaves.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wets
Noun
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See the valleys wake up and blossom in the spring, watch the rains turn everything green in the summer, enjoy crisp fall weather and changing leaves or play in the snow in the winter.—
Becky Bartkowski,
AZCentral.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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But those trees remain, and a fresh blanket of leaves and grass has sprouted after recent rains.—
Christine Lennon,
Architectural Digest,
11 Feb. 2026
Verb
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First into his life comes Jessie involved in a shipwreck with her uncle, a past colleague of Mason’s, who drowns in a vicious storm and almost takes Jessie down with him before she is heroically rescued from near death by Mason, who brings her out of the drink and then back to life.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
28 Jan. 2026
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What should be a fast minimum viable product (MVP) becomes a bloated prototype that delays launch and drowns out real user feedback.—
Renae Gregoire,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
Verb
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While one parent feeds them, the other washes their sheets.—
Michael Cuglietta,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 Feb. 2026
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As laundry expert Bree Uebergang explains, the key variations in the two cycles mainly comes down to the amount of agitation involved as the machine washes your items.—
Ashley Chalmers,
The Spruce,
30 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The title floods the screen, in lavishly flowing script, a whopping 49 minutes into this 108-minute neo-noir, not far off the halfway mark.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
5 Feb. 2026
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Those missions are especially timely, given Chicago's unhoused population floods the system for shelter for a place to stay warm when temperatures plummet.—
Tara Molina,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Rain soaks everyone to the skin every day, yet no one remembers an umbrella.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Remove rust with steel wool, vinegar soaks, baking soda paste, or coarse salt scrubs.—
Emily Benda Gaylord,
The Spruce,
17 Jan. 2026
Verb
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There is a dangerous high risk of rip currents along the Atlantic beaches, and a small craft advisory is in effect for the Atlantic and Florida Keys waters.—
Lissette Gonzalez,
CBS News,
12 Jan. 2026
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At the same time, the other could head back to the Persian Gulf or Red Sea, waters that the United States seems unable to stay away from for any extended period.—
Peter Suciu,
Forbes.com,
5 Jan. 2026
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“Wets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wets. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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