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soaking |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Soaking \Soak"ing\, a. Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as a soaking rain. -- {Soak"ing*ly}, adv From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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 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. --Isa. xxiv. 7. 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. --Sir W. Scott. 5. Fig.: To absorb; to drain. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: soaking adj : wet through and through thoroughly wet; "stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "a shirt saturated with perspiration"; "his shoes were sopping (or soaking)"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy clothes" [syn: {drenched}, {saturated}, {soaked}, {sodden}, {sopping}, {soppy}] n 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" [syn: {soak}, {soakage}] 2: the act of making something completely wet [syn: {drenching}, {souse}, {sousing}] 3: washing something by allowing it to soak [syn: {soak}] adv : extremely; "dripping wet," "soaking wet" [syn: {sopping}, {dripping}]
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