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wetting out

wetting out is the present participle and gerund of wet out.

Meaning of wet out

Verb

wet out (third-person singular simple present wets out, present participle wetting out, simple past and past participle wetted out or wet out)

  1. to thoroughly soak a fiber in water for the even application of dye

Questions about wetting out

What is wetting out the present participle and gerund of?
Wetting out is the present participle and gerund of wet out.

Words near wetting out in the dictionary

  1. wetting one's beak
  2. wetting one's clay
  3. wetting one's pants
  4. wetting one's whistle
  5. wetting oneself
  6. wetting out
  7. wetting the baby's head
  8. wetting the bed
  9. wetting the other eye
  10. wetting the shamrock
  11. wetting through

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wetting out (page history and authors); wet out (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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