Talk:wet through

through (adverb): thoroughly

thoroughly: completely and in every part
Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English

Is it a productive adverb? --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:00, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

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wet through

SOP. See also soaked through. Canonicalization (talk) 16:32, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

Keep, found one lemming, there may be others. It could be idiomatic anyway, I think. DonnanZ (talk) 22:46, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

I've been trying to find usage to test the issue, but this one is all over the map. There at least three ways to analyze this, and there are examples of usage that support all of them.

1. Wet through (adjective)

   There are examples of modifiers such as almost and quite before "wet through", and "more or less wet through" is suggestive as well.

2. Wet (adjective) + through

   There are examples of modifiers such as almost and quite between "wet" and "through"

3. Wet (verb) + through

   This is tricky because the most common form of the past and past participle is identical to the present and infinitive. There are, however a few examples of "wetted through" and "wetted quite through". There are also examples of "wet it through".

Then there's the issue of whether "wet through" is an absolute as if it were "through and through" or the end of a directional progression, as if it were "to the surface or "to the other side".

That said, I find the examples supporting "wet through" as a single adjective are inconclusive and less convincing than the others. It looks to me like the verb + through and adjective + through probably both exist, but I'm not sure about the single-adjective option. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:28, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

I can certainly relate to the adjective after a recent event: "The heavens opened just as I got off the bus, and by the time I got home I was wet through." This is more emphatic than just wet, and as far as I'm aware there is no such word as superwet. I am not so sure about the verb though - to soak or saturate could be used instead. DonnanZ (talk) 10:01, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Narrator: "There was such a word as superwet". bd2412 T 04:37, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Fair enough, in a different sense. I sometimes find I shouldn't mention a term, as some bright spark thinks it is SoP and RFDs it. DonnanZ (talk) 08:55, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

• Delete, if soaked through is not allowed, I don't see the difference. -Mike (talk) 16:15, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Has soaked through ever been an entry? I can't find a deletion record. DonnanZ (talk) 13:42, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

• Keep adjective as set phrase. Delete verb. Mihia (talk) 23:30, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

Keep - set phrase. John Cross (talk) 10:17, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

• RFD-kept: no consensus for deletion. --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:27, 2 May 2020 (UTC)