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unwet

unwet adjective: not wet.

Adjective

unwet (not comparable)

  1. Not wet.
    • Such episodes belonged to the times; and, after all, by making a circuit of six miles he found the Psalter miraculously unwet, and only his worldly pride remained at the lake's bottom.1899, George Edward Woodberry, Heart of Man
    • […]Dante, looking out with fear upon the foam and spray and vapour of the flood, saw thousands of the damned flying before the face of one who forded Styx with feet unwet.1914, John Addington Symonds, Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series

Verb

unwet (third-person singular simple present unwets, present participle unwetting, simple past and past participle unwet)

  1. To dry, particularly of something that has recently been made wet.
    • UNWET YOUR PANTS with dry-on-the-fly cargos2016, Unwet Your Pants, Duluth Trading Co.

Forms of unwet

third-person singular presentunwets
present participleunwetting
past participleunwet
pastunwet

Origin of unwet

From un- + wet.

Questions about unwet

What does unwet mean?
Unwet means not wet.
What part of speech is unwet?
Unwet can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near unwet in the dictionary

  1. unwelted
  2. unwept
  3. unwestern
  4. unwesternised
  5. unwesternized
  6. unwet
  7. unwettable
  8. unwetted
  9. unwhacked
  10. unwheel
  11. unwheeled

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