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Definition

to increase a sense or desire

or more rarely: to sharpen a knife or other cutting edge

The appetizer whet our appetite for what was to come.

whet = increased

Her review whet my appetite to read the book.

whet = increased

Her question whet my curiosity.

whet = increased

I have an idea that Van Helsing thinks he knows, too, but he will only let out enough at a time to whet curiosity.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

whet = increase

Because there is a force that wants you to realize your destiny; it whets your appetite with a taste of success.
Paulo Coelho -- The Alchemist

whets = increases a desire

His hands are cold as ice, and an hour ago I found him whetting the edge of the great Ghoorka knife which he now always carries with him.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

whetting = sharpening

His glimpse that he have had, whet his appetite only and enkeen his desire.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

whet = increased (a desire)

Then I went out into the kitchen, took the steel out of the rack and began to whet the bayonet.
James Lincoln Collier -- My Brother Sam is Dead
Possibly the rescue of Charles Nalle had whetted her appetite for adventure.
Ann Petry -- Harriet Tubman
He'd made the blade himself, mounted it and whetted it sharp.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The poor morsel of food only whetted desire.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
10:10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
The Bible -- Ecclesiastes
Then she began to whet her knife.
C.S. Lewis -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Thou hidest a thousand daggers in thy thoughts Which thou hast whetted on thy stony heart, To stab at half an hour of my life.
William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 2
His appetite had been whetted by the thirty pounds he had made in the summer, and he wanted now to make a couple of hundred.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
These fragments of nourishment served only to whet my hunger.
H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
The prospect of so idyllic an interim added to the inspired stealth with which he whetted his wire, filed it to a Umber stiletto fineness.
Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
And the Rwandan example whetted the appetites of some of Burundi's Hutu elites.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly?
William Shakespeare -- The Merchant of Venice
She had everyone piled in the kitchen, whetting appetites with marinated olives.
Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers

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