Soaking

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  • v. Present participle of soak.
  • n. Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
  • adj. Extremely wet; saturated.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Wetting thoroughly; drenching.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A steeping; a wetting; a drenching.
  • n. Intemperate and continual drinking. Compare soak, v. i., 4.
  • n. The operation of desilverizing a lead regulus by running it into a bath of molten lead in the fore-hearth of a blast-furnace; also the operation of equalizing the temperature of steel ingots in a soaking-pit.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of making something completely wet
  • n. the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
  • ad. extremely wet
  • n. washing something by allowing it to soak
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    wetting    natural process    action    activity    natural action    wash    lavation    washing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    drenching   
    Verb Stem
    soak   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    antismoking    broking    choking    cloaking    coking    croaking    evoking    invoking    joking    non-smoking