| very |
| 1. adj. True, real, actual. | |
| The fierce hatred of a very woman. The very blood and bone of our grammar. He tried his very best. | |
| 2. adj. The same; identical. | |
| He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met. That's the very tool that I need. | |
| 3. adj. With limiting effect: mere. | |
| 4. adv. To a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly. | |
| You’re drinking very slowly. | |
| That dress is very you. | |
| 5. adv. True, truly. | |
| 6. adv. (with superlatives) (ngd, Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.) | |
| He was the very best runner there. | |
| wet |
| 1. adj. Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water. | |
| Synonyms: wetting | |
| Water is wet. | |
| 2. adj. Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water. | |
| Synonyms: damp, saturated, soaked, Thesaurus:wet | |
| I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet. | |
| 3. adj. Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce. | |
| 4. adj. Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed. | |
| This pen’s a wet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper. | |
| 5. adj. Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied. | |
| 6. adj. Of weather or a time period: rainy. | |
| Synonyms: damp, raining, rainy | |
| It’s going to be wet tomorrow. | |
| 7. adj. (slang) Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie. | |
| Synonyms: green, wet behind the ears | |
| That guy’s wet; after all, he just started yesterday. | |
| 8. adj. (slang) (of women) Sexually aroused and thus having a vulva moistened with vaginal secretions. | |
| Synonyms: horny, moist, Thesaurus:randy | |
| He got me all wet. | |
| 9. adj. (Britain, slang) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character. | |
| Synonyms: feeble, hopeless, useless | |
| Don’t be so wet. | |
| 10. adj. (slang) Permitting alcoholic beverages, as during Prohibition. | |
| 11. adj. (slang) Refreshed with liquor; drunk. | |
| 12. adj. (biology, chemistry) Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter. | |
| 13. adj. (chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid. | |
| the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed | |
| 14. n. Liquid or moisture. | |
| 15. n. Rainy weather. | |
| Don't go out in the wet. | |
| 16. n. (Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized) | |
| 17. n. (UK, pejorative) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, contrasted with dry. | |
| 18. n. (colloquial) An alcoholic drink. | |
| 19. n. (US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition. | |
| 20. v. To cover or impregnate with liquid. | |
| 21. v. To accidentally urinate in or on. | |
| Johnny wets the bed several times a week. | |
| 22. v. (intransitive) To make or become wet. | |
| 23. v. (transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate. | |
| 24. v. misspelling of whet | |
| sodden |
| 1. adj. Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated. | |
| 2. adj. (archaic) Boiled. | |
| 3. adj. (figuratively) Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness. | |
| 4. adj. (figuratively) Dull, expressionless (of a person’s appearance) | |
| 5. v. To drench, soak or saturate. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To become soaked. | |
| soaked |
| 1. v. simple past tense and past participle of soak | |
| 2. adj. Drenched with water, or other liquid. | |
| soak |
| 1. v. (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it. | |
| I'm going to soak in the bath for a couple of hours. | |
| 2. v. To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation. | |
| Soak the beans overnight before cooking. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation. | |
| The water soaked into my shoes and gave me wet feet. | |
| 4. v. To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up) | |
| A sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture. | |
| I soaked up all the knowledge I could at university. | |
| 5. v. (figurative, transitive) To take money from. | |
| 1928, Upton Sinclair, Boston | |
| It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot. (...) Well, they got him in the same kind of jam, and soaked him to the tune of three hundred and eighty-six th | |
| 6. v. (slang) To drink intemperately or gluttonously. | |
| 7. v. (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it. | |
| 8. v. (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time. | |
| We should soak the kiln at cone 9 for half an hour. | |
| 9. v. (figurative, transitive) To absorb; to drain. | |
| 10. n. An immersion in water etc. | |
| After the climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath. | |
| 11. n. (slang) A drunkard. | |
| 12. n. (slang) A carouse; a drinking session. | |
| 13. n. (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain. | |
