soaking

1. 1.

   extremely wet

   “dripping wet”

   “soaking wet”

   Synonymssoppingdripping

Other forms of soaking

plural

soakings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about soaking

What does soaking mean?

soaking means "the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in soaking?

soaking has 2 syllables: soa-king. The stress falls on "soa". In IPA it is /ˈsoʊkɪŋ/.

What is another word for soaking?

Close synonyms include soak, soakage, drenching, souse, sousing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is soaking a common word?

soaking is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.