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Noun soaking has 3 senses

• soaking(n = noun.process) soak, soakage - 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"
is a kind of action, activity, natural action, natural process
Derived form verb soak₁

• soaking(n = noun.act) drenching, souse, sousing - the act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a good drenching"
is a kind of wetting
Derived form verb soak₃

• soaking(n = noun.act) soak - washing something by allowing it to soak; Array
is a kind of lavation, wash, washing
Derived form verb soak₁

Adverbial soaking has 1 sense

• soaking(r = adv.all) dripping, sopping - extremely wet; "dripping wet"; "soaking wet"

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soaking

absorbent, adsorbent, assimilative, awash, bathed, bibulous, blotting, brewing, chemisorptive, chemosorptive, concentration, dampening, decoction, deluged, digestive, dipped, distillation, dousing, dowsing, drench, drenched, drenching, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, ducking, dunking, endosmotic, engulfed, exosmotic, expression, flooded, humectant, imbibitory, imbruement, imbuement, immersed, impregnation, infiltration, infusion, injection, instillation, instillment, interpenetration, inundated, irrigational, irriguous, leaching, lixiviation, macerated, maceration, marination, moistening, oozing, osmotic, overflowed, penetration, percolation, permeated, permeation, pervasion, pressing, pulping, rendering, rendition, resorbent, saturated, saturating, saturation, seeping, seething, soak, soakage, soaked, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, sorbent, souse, soused, sousing, spongeous, spongy, squeezing, steeped, steeping, streaming, submerged, submersed, suffusion, swamped, thirsty, watering, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, wet, wetting, whelmed, wringing wet

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Moisture

N moisture, moistness, humidity, humectation, madefaction, dew, serein, marsh, hygrometry, hygrometer, moist, damp, watery, madid, roric, undried, humid, sultry, wet, dank, luggy, dewy, roral, rorid, roscid, juicy, wringing wet, soaking wet, wet through to the skin, saturated, swashy, soggy, dabbled, reeking, dripping, soaking, soft, sodden, sloppy, muddy, swampy, irriguous.

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