Hypertext Webster Gateway: "soaking"
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) 1.7 (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; "he gave it a
good drenching" [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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