wet
adjective
moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid.
rewet
-
a word derived from
wet.
Example Sentences
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The group has secured EU funding to help restore the bog, removing alien species and blocking drains to rewet the ground.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
Pope’s latest research, conducted in the Sierra and Plumas national forests, focuses on how people can rewet meadows in both burned and unburned areas by doing things like building beaver dam analogues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
This includes specific targets to rewet peatlands and to increase pollinator populations.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 15, 2023
“Drained peat dries out and leaks carbon, but once we rewet it, we can take live moss from donor sites and replant bare patches of bog with it,” Ms. Farrell said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
Then Jinny spit into the ink bowl to rewet it, dipped her feather in, and wrote.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
