soaking

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Extremely wet; completely wet through.

   My clothes were soaking after the storm.

2. 2
   noun

   The act of leaving something in liquid until it is thoroughly wet.

   The dried mushrooms need a good soaking before you cook them.

Inherited from Middle English soukynge. By surface analysis, soak + -ing. First attested in c. 1440 in the Promptorium parvulorum.

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