soaking

soaking
Synonyms and related words:
absorbent, adsorbent, assimilative, awash, bathed, bibulous, blotting, brewing, chemisorptive, chemosorptive, concentration, dampening, decoction, deluged, digestive, dipped, distillation, dousing, dowsing, drench, drenched, drenching, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, ducking, dunking, endosmotic, engulfed, exosmotic, expression, flooded, humectant, imbibitory, imbruement, imbuement, immersed, impregnation, infiltration, infusion, injection, instillation, instillment, interpenetration, inundated, irrigational, irriguous, leaching, lixiviation, macerated, maceration, marination, moistening, oozing, osmotic, overflowed, penetration, percolation, permeated, permeation, pervasion, pressing, pulping, rendering, rendition, resorbent, saturated, saturating, saturation, seeping, seething, soak, soakage, soaked, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, sorbent, souse, soused, sousing, spongeous, spongy, squeezing, steeped, steeping, streaming, submerged, submersed, suffusion, swamped, thirsty, watering, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, wet, wetting, whelmed, wringing wet

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  • Soaking — Soak ing, a. Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain. {Soak ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Soaking — Soaking. См. томление. (Источник: «Металлы и сплавы. Справочник.» Под редакцией Ю.П. Солнцева; НПО Профессионал , НПО Мир и семья ; Санкт Петербург, 2003 г.) …   Словарь металлургических терминов

  • soaking — soak|ing1 [ˈsəukıŋ US ˈsou ] adj also .soaking wet very wet ▪ a soaking wet towel soaking 2 soaking2 n if someone or something gets a soaking, they get very wet …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • soaking — soak|ing [ soukıŋ ] adjective extremely wet: My socks are soaking! soaking wet: You re soaking wet! …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • soaking — [[t]so͟ʊkɪŋ[/t]] ADJ If something is soaking or soaking wet, it is very wet. My face and raincoat were soaking wet. Syn: sopping …   English dictionary

  • soaking — UK [ˈsəʊkɪŋ] / US [ˈsoʊkɪŋ] adjective extremely wet My socks are soaking! soaking wet: You re soaking wet! …   English dictionary

  • soaking — 1. verb Present participle of soak. 2. noun Immersed in water; a drenching or dunking. 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, [ …   Wiktionary

  • soaking — adjective (also soaking wet) extremely wet. noun an act of soaking something …   English new terms dictionary

  • soaking — 1 also soaking wet adjective very wet: You re soaking! Come in and dry off. 2 noun (C) a soak 2 (2) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • Soaking — Soak Soak, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Soaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Soaking}.] [OE. soken, AS. socian to sioak, steep, fr. s?can, s?gan, to suck. See {Suck}.] 1. To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • soaking — adv. Soaking is used with these adjectives: ↑wet …   Collocations dictionary

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