1. verb
Present participle of soak.
2. noun
Immersed in water; a drenching or dunking.
1906 "We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a soaking for our pains". — Horatio Alger, Joe the Hotel Boy, [ Chapter 2.]
3. adjective
Pertaining to things that soak, or become extremely wet.
1847 I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still soaking wet with the floods of yesterday. — Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, [ Chapter 5.]
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