soaking
/ˈsəʊkɪŋ
/adjective
Extremely wet; wet through: his jacket was soaking [as submodifier]: your hair’s soaking wet...
- The entire room was soaking and sopping wet when we entered.
- And all the people and all the animals ran out into the rain, for they did not care that the fields were now muddy or that they were soaking wet.
- I recall camping out with friends in a little makeshift tent; when it rained we all had to run home because we would all get soaking wet.
Synonyms
drenched, soaked, soaked to the skin, like a drowned rat, wet through, soaked through, sodden, soggy, waterlogged, saturated, sopping (wet), dripping (wet), wringing (wet), streaming
noun
An act of wetting something thoroughly: in spring, give the soil a good soaking...
- She added that the recent weather, thorough soakings followed by bright sunshine, had created ideal ground for the event.
- Those living in Greater London are the least likely to hand-wash their cars with an average of just 2.2 soakings annually.
- Spring is a changeable season with periods of fine weather broken by soakings of rain, he said.
Rhymes
- paucipinnate
- paucispiral
- paucity
- Pauillac
- pauldron
- Paulian
- Paulianist
- Paulician
- Paulicianism
- Pauli exclusion principle
- Paul III
- paulin
- 'paulin
- Pauline
- Pauling, Linus Carl
- security clearance
- Security Council
- security guard
- security hole
- security man
- security of tenure
- security patch
- security police
- security risk
- Security Service