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Definitions for SOAKING
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. 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"

  2. drenching, soaking, souse, sousingnoun

    the act of making something completely wet

    "he gave it a good drenching"

  3. soak, soakingadverb

    washing something by allowing it to soak

  4. soaking, sopping, drippingadverb

    extremely wet

    "dripping wet"; "soaking wet"

Wiktionary

  1. soakingnoun

    Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.

  2. soakingadjective

    Extremely wet; saturated.

ChatGPT

  1. 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

  1. Soaking

    of Soak

  2. Soakingadjective

    wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of SOAKING in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of SOAKING in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of SOAKING in a Sentence

  1. Donald Trump:

    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.

  2. Daithi Stone:

    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.

  3. Rene Redzepi:

    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.

  4. Robert Earl:

    It’s soaking up the whole experience while you’re there, it’s going to be an attraction in itself.

  5. Linda Birnbaum:

    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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