English
Verb
soaking
#Present participle of soak.
Noun
en-noun
- immerse|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.
Adjective
soaking
- Pertaining to things that soak, or become extremely wet.
#:1848 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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