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Definitions for SOAKING
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Princeton's WordNet
soak, soakage, soakingnoun
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"
drenching, soaking, souse, sousingnoun
the act of making something completely wet
"he gave it a good drenching"
soak, soakingadverb
washing something by allowing it to soak
soaking, sopping, drippingadverb
extremely wet
"dripping wet"; "soaking wet"
Wiktionary
soakingnoun
Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
soakingadjective
Extremely wet; saturated.
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soaking
Soaking is the process of fully immersing a substance or material in a liquid for a period of time in order to soften, clean, or absorb the liquid. This could refer to soaking dishes in soapy water to wash them, soaking beans overnight before cooking, or soaking up water with a sponge. The purpose and duration of soaking often depends on the specific context.
Webster Dictionary
Soaking
of Soak
Soakingadjective
wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of SOAKING in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of SOAKING in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of SOAKING in a Sentence
It looked like he just came out of a swimming pool. He was soaking wet, he's a meltdown guy. I mean I look at him, he's just pouring sweat. ... We need somebody that doesn't sweat.
The whole area is usually very dry and very close to drought this time of year. Now it’s soaking wet, but that risk of drought hasn’t gone away, (and) in our predictions of how climate change is going to affect New Zealand, that’s a feature that seems to be fairly robust – that Northland (north of Auckland) will get drier.
But most of the times we are out now foraging for work, we go there and it's like harvest time. It isn't as romantic as you think where you are with your little wooden basket, picking things while listening to music and soaking in the sun.
It’s soaking up the whole experience while you’re there, it’s going to be an attraction in itself.
Maybe Whole Foods's something that we all as consumers need to think about, is Whole Foods more important to have PFAS wrappings on our food to prevent grease soaking through ? Or do we just accept that as something that we deal with ?
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