soaking

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
noun the act of making something completely wet
noun washing something by allowing it to soak

Inherited from Middle English soukynge. By surface analysis, soak + -ing. First attested in c. 1440 in the Promptorium parvulorum.

‘That comes from my soaking in the water. — Just so stories, Rudyard Kipling
The Winnebago gave it a descriptive name: Hay-me-ah'-shan (Soaking Mountain). — Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863, George Byron Merrick
She received Svidrigaïlov in respectful silence, looking wonderingly at his soaking clothes. — Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

soak, soakage

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