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Definition of Overwetted
1. overwet [v] - See also: overwet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overwetted
Literary usage of Overwetted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on Natural and Artificial Concrete: Its Varieties and by Henry Reid (1879)
"An excess of water would render the beneficial action of the impinging tamper
inoperative, as the blow therefrom could not consolidate an overwetted mass, ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Natural and Artificial Concrete: Its Varieties and by Henry Reid (1879)
"An excess of water would render the beneficial action of the impinging tamper
inoperative, as the blow therefrom could not consolidate an overwetted mass, ..."
3. The works of Henry Fielding, ed. with a biogr. essay by L. Stephen by Henry Fielding, Leslie Stephen (1882)
"... am afraid it would go hard with us all— Wise servants always stick close to
one another, like plums in a pudding that's overwetted, says Susan the cook. ..."
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