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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
whet .
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Examples
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Then she again whetted the knife and said to the slave girls, “Uncover him.”
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Such a calling whetted my appetite to do something heroic with my life!
Quote of the Day (Tony Campolo) James F. McGrath 2008
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When Jim Crow laws ruled the roost, a Temple janitor pecked away at racism with pen and paper, his sword whetted by iambic pentameter.
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So that kind of whetted the appetite to really focus on this report.
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Oh, Brenna Gethers, do you know what "whetted" means?
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Oh, Brenna Gethers, do you know what "whetted" means?
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Oh, Brenna Gethers, do you know what "whetted" means?
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Oh, Brenna Gethers, do you know what "whetted" means?
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Oh, Brenna Gethers, do you know what "whetted" means?
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Oh, Brenna Gethers, do you know what "whetted" means?
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