soaking
(noun, adjective, verb, adverb)
adjective
1. Extremely wet; saturated.
- 1847 I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still soaking wet with the floods of yesterday. — Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Chapter 5.
noun
1. the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
- a good soak put life back in the wagon
Similar word(s): soak, soakage
Definition categories: process, action, activity
2. the act of making something completely wet
Similar word(s): drenching, souse, sousing
Definition categories: act, wetting
3. washing something by allowing it to soak
Similar word(s): soak
Definition categories: act, lavation, wash, washing
Sentences with soaking as a noun:
- 1906 "We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a soaking for our pains". — Horatio Alger, Joe the Hotel Boy, Chapter 2.
verb
1. present participle of soak