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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

throwing a wet blanket on

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English

Syllables
throw-ing a wet blan-ket on
IPA
37
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
3
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of throw a wet blanket on

Questions

What does throwing a wet blanket on mean?
present participle and gerund of throw a wet blanket on

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