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单词 wet through, to the skin
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wet through, to the skin
c. with prefixed intensive participle, as wringing wet (see wringing adj. 1b), dripping wet, †dropping wet. wet through, to the skin: having one's clothes completely saturated (cf. wet v. 4c).
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective]
thorough wetOE
drunk1382
drunkenc1420
uliginosec1440
dung wetc1450
drookeda1522
wet through, to the skin1526
sogginga1552
washed1557
washy1566
muck-wet1567
wringing wet1570
drenched1589
dropsy1605
ydrenched1610
sobby1611
dropsieda1616
slocken1643
uliginous1650
dabbling1661
sodded1661
sobbing1664
sobbed1693
flashy1702
saturated1728
saturate1785
livereda1796
sappy1806
laving1812
sodden1820
sopped1822
soppy1823
soaked1829
dropsical1845
soddened1845
soaking wet1847
soggya1852
sogged1860
soaking1864
sopping1866
soaken1898
astream1929
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] > enough to be wrung out
wringing wet1570
dropping wet1605
dripping wet1835
1526 100 Merry Tales No. 82 (facs.) 22 b There fel a good showre of rayn that the skoler was well wasshyd and wete to ye skyn.
1598 Floure & Leafe in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 367v/2 Wherwith they made hem stately fires great To dry their clothes yt were wringing weat.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 146 Dropping wet..I returne to land Laden with spoiles.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Traversé,..wet through, or (as we say) to the skinne.
1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 12 I don't believe..that they were ever wet to the skin in their lives.
1770 J. Wesley Jrnl. 16 Apr. We..got into a Scotch mist, and were dropping wet.
1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 61 But all this does not make it the more agreeable to get wet through.
1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xiii Some dripping wet, having fallen into the river.
1840 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. 359 The last eighteen miles it rained like fury, and I reached Hartford wet through.
1859 F. E. Paget Curate of Cumberworth 343 The rain set in..so heavily, that in half an hour I was wet to the skin.
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to wet through, to the skin
4. To make moist or damp by exposure to rain, by a fall into water, or the like. to wet through, to the skin: to drench the clothes of (a person).
a. Said of water, rain, etc.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > make wet [verb (transitive)] > by exposure to water or rain
wet1297
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 6578 Þat water..wax euere uaste,..& watte is sson & is vet.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 23685 Waters þat wete þan cristes flexs.
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. II. 25 Þe water wolde..wete [MS. γ weete] al her cloþes.
a1500 R. Henryson Ressoning betuix Aige & Yowth 4 in Poems (1981) 170 Perly droppis of the balmy schouris Thir widdis grene had with thair watter wete.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 780/2 In the begynnyng of the yere the dewe weteth the grounde swetely.
1589 Pappe w. Hatchet in Lyly's Wks. (Bond) III. 394 We care not for a Scottish mist, though it wet vs to the skin.
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 218 Men..of as bad a nature and base a moulde as euer water wette, or winde dried.
1658 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1920) IV. 57 Wee had not above 4 shots of powder and that the worst that euer water wet.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1646 (1955) II. 509 These Waters in some places, breaking in the fall, wett us as if we had pas'd through a mist.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 304 The Place was not deep, but it wetted me all over.
1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain v. 57 The clouds wetted me as they passed along.
1816 J. K. Tuckey Narr. Exped. River Zaire (1818) v. 179 During the night we had two smart showers of rain, which..wetted us through.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xiv. 121 ‘It doesn't take much to wet you and me through, Mr. Crowl,’ said Newman, laying his hand upon the lappel of his threadbare coat.
1858 D. Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Philos.: Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, & Heat (new ed.) 73 If a capillary tube be plunged in a liquid which wets it.
1874 March. Dufferin Canad. Jrnl. (1891) 171 A thunder-shower..which wetted us to the skin.
1884 Law Times Rep. 51 229/2 The water..soaked under the wall and wetted the mud below it.
figurative.a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xvii. 17 Apparuerunt fontes aquarum..þat is þe sothfastnes of prechours is seen, þat wetis men wiþ halesome lare.a1633 Visct. Falkland Hist. Edward II (1680) 93 What can he do to England, which hath a wooden wall will wet his courage?
b. absol.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > be wet [verb (intransitive)] > make wet
wetc1330
moistc1400
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace 10340 Wyþ rysyng wawes,..Fer aboute hym wil he [the lake] wete.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace 10343 Þe wawes þat so wetes.
a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems v. 44 All is not gold that gleitis..Nor water all that weitis.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 26 The propertie of raine is to wet, and fire to burne. View more context for this quotation
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 373 All they ever have is a dew, which is so slender it never wets at all.
1661 R. Boyle Hist. Fluidity & Firmnesse i, in Certain Physiol. Ess. 163 Though every wetting Liquor be fluid, yet every fluid body does not wet.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 82 The purest water wets soonest and most.
c. passive. Often to be wet through, (also †thorough or through wet), wet to the skin (cf. 4a).The form wet of the past participle is sometimes difficult to distinguish from wet adj. 4c.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > very wet [phrase] > having wet clothes
to be wet throughc1400
wet to the skin1535
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > make very wet [verb (transitive)] > a person's clothes
wet1820
c1400 tr. Higden VII. 151 In processe of tyme þat body y-wette wiþ dewy droppes knewe þe comoun corrupcioun of dedly men.
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 12942 So faste doun the water ȝet, That thei were alle thorow wet.
1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 129 The Newe making of a last of gonnepoudre wett in saltwater.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Dan. iv. B With the dew of heauen shall he be wet.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 99v But if he had been wetted from toppe to toe, no man standyng by to see it, then had he been miserable in veraye deede.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xvi. 149 As the drie ground that thirstes after a showr Seemes to reioyce when it is well iwet.
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. F To haue him stand in the raine tyll he was thorough wet.
1639 J. Taylor Part Summers Trav. 44 So that the miserable Stipend..will hardly buy wood to make a fire for him when hee comes home to dry him, when hee is through wet.
1659 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 141 Hee..was wett to the skin before he came half way.
1759 S. Johnson Idler 25 Aug. 265 He..heard with great delight a shower, by which he was not wet, rattling among the branches.
a1766 F. Sheridan Concl. Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph (1767) IV. 53 The bottom of that vile ditch into which he had fallen was full of water, and he had been wet quite through.
1775 A. Burnaby Trav. Middle Settlements N.-Amer. 36 I had been wet to the skin in the afternoon.
1820 R. Southey Life Wesley I. 78 Having slept on the floor one night, because his bed had been wetted in a storm.
1842 Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 2 78 Some of the compressed trenails had been wetted by accident, and could not be afterwards driven into the holes in the chairs.
1856 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 8 Apr. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. iv. 476 We were caught in two or three showers..but got back..without being very much wetted.
1898 A. Balfour To Arms vii The street was paved with large, rounded stones, which..were splashed and wetted by dirty water thrown from above.
1904 A. N. Cooper Quaint Talks 10 Few things have struck people as more wonderful than how I have survived being wet through so often.
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