soaking
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Definition
Adverb:
- Extremely wet: To a degree of being thoroughly saturated with liquid.
Noun:
- The act of making something completely wet: The action of drenching or saturating something.
- The process of becoming softened and saturated: The consequence of being immersed in a liquid, allowing the liquid to penetrate.
Usage and Examples
Adverb:
- She was soaking wet after getting caught in the rain.
- The towel was soaking and heavy with water.
Noun:
- The soaking of the beans overnight is necessary before cooking.
- After a long soaking, the dried mud was easier to clean from the boots.
Advanced Usage
- "A good soaking": A thorough and prolonged period of being made wet, often to achieve a specific purpose like cleaning or rehydration.
- The dry soil needs a good soaking to help the plants recover.
Variants and Related Words
- Soak (verb): To make something very wet by leaving it in liquid.
- Soak the stained shirt in cold water.
- Soaked (adjective): Thoroughly wet.
- His clothes were soaked through.
- Soaker (noun): A heavy rainstorm; or something used for soaking.
- We got caught in a real soaker.
Synonyms
- Drenched: Thoroughly wet.
- Saturated: Holds as much water or moisture as can be absorbed.
- Soggy: Heavy with water; unpleasantly wet and soft.
Related Phrases
- Soaking up: (Phrasal verb from the root 'soak') To absorb liquid or, figuratively, to absorb information or an experience.
- The sponge is soaking up the spill.
- She spent the summer soaking up the local culture.
Adverb
- extremely wet
- dripping wet
- soaking wet
Noun
- washing something by allowing it to soak
- the act of making something completely wet
- he gave it a good drenching
- 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