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• n  a chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved
• n  a workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process
• n  someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while asleep in bed
• a  covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
• a  containing moisture or volatile components
• a  supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages
• a  producing or secreting milk
• s  consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor
• s  very drunk

• As a result, the area was cooler and wetter and overgrown with trees, bushes and patches of grass.
• Antarctica was once a warmer, wetter land than it is now, but continental migration pushed it from place to place, leaving it for the current epoch at least at the bottom .
• Do you know that Antarctica is balmier and wetter than the surface of Mars? Yet I don't see people lining up to build condos in Antarctica.

• wetting agent
• surfactant
• surface-active agent
• bedwetter
• bed wetter
• wet
• lactating
• besotted
• blind drunk
• blotto
• crocked
• cockeyed
• fuddled
• loaded
• pie-eyed
• pissed
• pixilated
• plastered
• slopped
• sloshed
• smashed
• soaked
• soused
• sozzled
• squiffy
• stiff
• tight

• dry

News & Articles

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• Corps of Engineers report drought persists despite wetter than normal May
  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jody Farhat, Chief of the Missouri River Water Management Division, says wetter than normal conditions across much of the Missouri River basin during May haven't affected the rivers and the mainstem reservoir levels remain below normal.
  June 11, 2013 - KTIV Sioux City
• Lots More Rain Expected Early This Week (Starting NOW)
  Let's talk rainfall today. When I posted an earlier version of the above graph we had just been through one of the driest Aprils on record, and precipitation for the year was five inches below normal. One month and 14.49 inches of rain later, 2013 is now wetter than 2011, the second wettest year on record. Had the 31 days between May 8th and June 7th been a calendar month it would have been the ...
  June 10, 2013 - Gothamist
• Kelly Bostian: The old man and the teen
  The morning air at the wooded archery course trail at Wagoner Archery Club hung thick with moisture. The woods warmed like a greenhouse, warmer and wetter as the sun worked to pierce the clouds that had dumped several inches of rain across northeast Oklahoma in the preceding 24 hours.
  June 9, 2013 - Tulsa World

Quotes

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• Peter Dawson in USA Today
  This has been the driest April we've had for a long time, followed by the wettest period in late May or June,Dawson said. "Whilst the ground is wetter than we like to see, it hasn't resulted in quite as much grass. Very unusual...
• Lee Scott in Bloomberg
  With higher gasoline prices and a cooler and wetter spring than normal, we missed our plan,Scott said in the statement. "We are making the necessary adjustments and I anticipate better results in the second half of the year."
• Andy Bean in Sports Network
  All in all a solid round of golf,Bean stated. "Maybe with the course being wetter it helped me keep the ball in the fairways. The greens were holding too."