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Soaking   /sˈoʊkɪŋ/   Listen
Soaking

noun
1.
The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).  Synonyms: soak, soakage.
2.
The act of making something completely wet.  Synonyms: drenching, souse, sousing.
3.
Washing something by allowing it to soak.  Synonym: soak.
adverb
1.
Extremely wet.  Synonyms: dripping, sopping.  "Soaking wet"


Soak

verb
(past & past part. soaked; pres. part. soaking)
1.
Submerge in a liquid.
2.
Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.  Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, surcharge.
3.
Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto.  Synonyms: douse, dowse, drench, sop, souse.
4.
Leave as a guarantee in return for money.  Synonyms: hock, pawn.
5.
Beat severely.
6.
Make drunk (with alcoholic drinks).  Synonyms: inebriate, intoxicate.
7.
Become drunk or drink excessively.  Synonyms: hit it up, inebriate, souse.
8.
Fill, soak, or imbue totally.  Synonym: imbue.
9.
Heat a metal prior to working it.



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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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