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wet

 
/wet/ v [T] (present participle wetting, past tense and past participle wet or wetted)

Definition

Wet a sponge and wipe off the table. A person, esp. a child, who wets something causes it to become wet by urinating: He still sometimes wets his bed.
(Definition of wet v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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