Soaking
['səʊkɪŋ] or ['sokɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Soak
(a.) Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain.
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Examples
- Then they were out of sight around the corner of the draw and he was soaking wet with sweat and looking at nothing. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Sometimes these stains can be removed by soaking in milk, and where this is possible, it is the better method. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- She cannot sing, it is my belief: her voice is as cracked as thine, O thou beer-soaking Renowner! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He moved on, and I followed him, through the darkness and the small soaking rain. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Soaking into this filthy ground as you lie here, is your own shape. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Those that have lived there all their lives, are used to soaking in the stagnant waters. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Soaking in vats formerly occupied twelve or eighteen months, but under the new methods the time has been greatly reduced. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But such displays of firmness could not prevent the lesson of that flight soaking into men's minds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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