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soaking

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1. soaking - Noun

2. soaking - Adjective

3. soaking - Verb

4. soaking - Adverb

Meaning

of Soak

Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz. Norman Granz

In the intermission, between group one and group two, you go to your dressing-room and change every stitch you have on you: underwear, shirt, tie, socks, pants and tails. Your other clothes are soaking wet. George Antheil

The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground. Haruki Murakami

It was ridiculous-he was soaking. I had to get a towel and offer him clothes that he wouldn't take. I knew immediately that I'd like him; he just had one of those faces. I could see what he'd been like as a boy, probably always fenced off in the electronic penitentiary of a too-fast mind. Russell Brand

You tried to drink the East River,"Magnus said, and Alec saw, as if for the first time, that Magnus's clothes were soaking wet too, sticking to his body like a dark second skin. Cassandra Clare

Getting money is like digging with a needle. Spending it is like water soaking into the sand. Japanese Proverb

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