1. makes something damp or soaked with water or another liquid
Usage: third person singular present of ‘wet’

1. people who supported the repeal of Prohibition in the United States
Usage: historical; plural

Examples

• She wets the cloth before cleaning the table.
• The rain wets the ground every morning.
• He always wets his hair before combing it.
• The sprinkler wets the entire lawn.
• The wets campaigned against Prohibition in the 1920s.
• Political debates between wets and drys dominated the era.