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whetted

adj

Definitions

  1. Having undergone the process of whetting

    Having undergone the process of whetting; sharpened or honed.

    • Then Beowulf too rallied. With his whetted dagger he slit a gash in the serpent's middle.

  2. (of a surface) exposed to a working fluid.

    • The inside of a valve has whetted parts constructed of corrosion-resistant material.

  3. simple past and past participle of whet

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for whetted. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA