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soaking
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 for our pains".
" Horatio Alger,
Joe the Hotel Boy
,
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Chapter 2.
verb
Present participle of soak.
adjective
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 wet with the floods of yesterday. " Charlotte Bronte,
Jane Eyre'',
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Chapter 5.
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