Wetten

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make wet; to wet nonstandard, transitive

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

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

Etymology

From wet + -en.

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