Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A steeping; a wetting; a drenching.
- noun Intemperate and continual drinking. Compare soak, v. i., 4.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wetting thoroughly; drenching.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
soak . - noun
Immersion in water; adrenching ordunking . - adjective Extremely wet;
saturated .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of making something completely wet
- noun the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
- adverb extremely wet
- noun washing something by allowing it to soak
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Examples
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That tub is what I call a soaking tub, and I hope you got some time to put it to that use.
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That tub is what I call a soaking tub, and I hope you got some time to put it to that use.
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Also, riding for 30 miles in soaking-wet socks is a bummer.
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Their Democratic Governors are now pushing big new tax increases in the name of soaking the rich and balancing their budgets, as if that same strategy hadn't put them in their current fiscal straits.
The Two Left Coasts 2011
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The soaking is a crucial step: I do this by placing 1 cup sabudana in a bowl and just barely covering it with water, then covering it and setting it aside.
Archive 2007-09-01 Nupur 2007
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This requires the wrist of the shooting hand be almost horizontal, I don't know about anyone else but I find this position tends to cramp my wrist which really wants to be more vertical where it could also aid in soaking up recoil.
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I agree that a spinning, swinging perforated (subject to soaking from the rain) milk bottle seems an unlikely choice for nesting.
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Carefully pour in soaking liquid, stopping before you get to the powdery dregs.
Toast: Lindy 2005
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Carefully pour in soaking liquid, stopping before you get to the powdery dregs.
The Fancy Pantry Mushroom Thing Lindy 2005
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They removed soaking from the function of this sink, but when's the last time I soaked something in a sink?
Boing Boing 2003
reesetee commented on the word soaking
In stamp collecting, the process of removing stamps from envelope paper. Most stamps can be safely soaked in water; however, those with fugitive inks will run, and those printed on chalky paper will lose their designs entirely.
August 26, 2008