wetten

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verb

To make wet; to wet

OriginEnglish wet ← Middle English wet ← Old English wǣt →
UncommonScrabble 9
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Meanings

verbwetten (third-person singular simple present wettens, present participle wettening, simple past and past participle wettened)

present singular third person wettens · participle present wettening · participle past wettened · past wettened

  1. nonstandardtransitiveTo make wet; to wet

    Her eyelids drooped as though the lashes weighed intolerably; with the tip of her tongue she wettened her very red lips.

    1951, Truman Capote, The Grass Harp, Vintage Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 73

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*wed-
  2. Proto-Germanic*wētaz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*wāt
  4. Old Englishwǣt
  5. Middle Englishwet
  6. Englishwet
  7. Englishwetten

From wet + -en.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Tweten
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APA

wetten. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wetten

MLA

“wetten.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wetten. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wetten,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wetten.

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