'Soaking' definitions:
Definition of 'soaking'
(from WordNet)
adverb
noun
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, soaking]
noun
The act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a good drenching" [syn: drenching, soaking, souse, sousing]
noun
Washing something by allowing it to soak [syn: soak, soaking]
Definition of 'Soaking'
From: GCIDE
- Soaking \Soak"ing\, a. Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain. -- {Soak"ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Soaking'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To drench; to wet thoroughly. [1913 Webster]
- Their land shall be soaked with blood. --Isa. xxiv. 7. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through. [1913 Webster]
- The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Fig.: To absorb; to drain. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'soaking'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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