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单词 soaking
释义

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

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