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rewetted

rewetted is the simple past and past participle of rewet.

Meaning of rewet

Verb

rewet (third-person singular simple present rewets, present participle rewetting, simple past and past participle rewet or rewetted)

  1. (transitive) To wet again.
    • rewetting drops
    1. (transitive) To restore to wetland status via steps including reflooding.
      • With financial backing from the European Union, Ireland is also seeking to rehabilitate and protect thousands of acres of raised bogs. A number of them have been “rewetted” and turned into visitor attractions and nature reserves.2022 October 4, Ed O’Loughlin, “Protecting the Peatlands of Ireland as Fuel Costs Skyrocket”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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Questions about rewetted

What is rewetted the simple past and past participle of?
Rewetted is the simple past and past participle of rewet.

Words near rewetted in the dictionary

  1. Rewertses
  2. rewesternization
  3. rewet
  4. reweth
  5. rewets
  6. rewetted
  7. rewetten
  8. rewetting
  9. rewettings
  10. rewhip
  11. rewhipped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rewetted (page history and authors); rewet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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