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look like a drowned rat
informalDefinition
› to be very wet, especially because you have been in heavy rainWet weather and wetness
(Definition of look like a drowned rat from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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SMART Thesaurus: Wet weather & wetness
Synonyms and related words:
- bedraggled adjective
- dank adjective
- dowse verb (MAKE WET)
- drench verb
- dripping adjective
- drizzly adjective
- flooded adjective (WATER)
- moisten verb
- monsoon noun
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