What does soaking mean?

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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. Robert Earl:

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

  2. Clive Standen:

    Clive and I had all this gear on, and there was a rain machine, and when the gear gets wet it gets heavy, and we were cold and soaking and had sand stuck in our clothes.

  3. Chris Christie:

    When she got off that ferry, she was walking down the street and she was wrapped in a blanket and soaking wet -- anybody who had been in lower Manhattan, they were hosed off by firehoses. They were covered with dust, that's' the first sight of my wife after having left her that morning. I just grabbed her, hugged her, got her in the car and got her home.

  4. 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.

  5. Michael West:

    I was soaking wet - he has a pretty good arm on him and he has good aim.

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