to rewet
- verb
- /riːˈwɛt/
- They poured the shumpang gently and rewet me # #
Examples
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He had to rewet the towel after it dried out from the sun.
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Daine rewet her brush and added a further note to her letter: "Can't you use one of those words of power on it?"
Fiction book (1994) -
To keep the paint workable, you should rewet the palette with some water.
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After the plants dried out, I decided to rewet the soil to revive them.
Synonyms
Make something very wet by putting it into water or other liquid
To make something wet by covering it with liquid
To make something a little wet
To add water to something dry to make it moist again
Antonyms
How Wet
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rewet is made from re- 'again' and wet 'covered with water', so it means 'make wet again'. Think of watering a dry plant or wetting paint that has dried — that's why rewet is used when something needs water after it has dried.