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Soaking   /sˈoʊkɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Soak  v. t.  (past & past part. soaked; pres. part. soaking)  
1.
To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.
2.
To drench; to wet thoroughly. "Their land shall be soaked with blood."
3.
To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
4.
To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; often with through. "The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow."
5.
Fig.: To absorb; to drain. (Obs.)


Soak  v. i.  
1.
To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.
2.
To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.
3.
To drink intemperately or gluttonously. (Slang)


adjective
Soaking  adj.  Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain.





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"Soaking" Quotes from Famous Books



... removing tubes, flasks, etc., from the steam steriliser, they should be at once separated freely in order to prevent moisture condensing upon the cotton-wool plugs and soaking through into the interior ...
— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre
... in his white shirtsleeves, bent to his wheel. He had worn no hat, and the rain fairly rebounded as it dashed on his thick mat of soaking wet hair. ...
— Patty's Butterfly Days • Carolyn Wells
... trigger, all right, sir, but there are a thousand things we want to know about these natives that books never teach. I'm like a sponge, and can keep on soaking up information all ...
— The Outdoor Chums After Big Game - Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness • Captain Quincy Allen
... districts of the north-western Highlands,—a district included in that unhappy tract of country, doomed, we fear, to poverty and suffering, which we find marked in the rain-map of Europe with a double shade of blackness. We had hard work, and often soaking rain, during the day; and at night our damp fuel filled the turf hut in which we sheltered with suffocating smoke, and afforded no light by which to read. Nor—even ere the year got into its wane, and when in the long evenings we had light—had we ...
— Leading Articles on Various Subjects • Hugh Miller
... water on the leads the night before for it to have risen high enough to go above the edge of the lead, and of course when it got above the lead there was nothing to stop it running down under it, and soaking through the ceiling. The parapet and the roofs kept it from tumbling off down the sides of the house in the natural way. They said there must have been some obstruction in the pipe which ran down into the house, but whatever ...
— The Wouldbegoods • E. Nesbit


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