Word Meanings - SOAKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain. -- Soak"ing*ly, adv.

SOAKING
Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain. -- Soak"ing*ly, adv.
WETTISH
Somewhat wet; moist; humid.
DRENCHER
1. One who, or that which, west or steeps. 2. One who administers a drench.
DRENCH
1. To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic. As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink."
THOROUGHLY
In a thorough manner; fully; entirely; completely.
SOAKY
Full of moisture; wet; soppy.
SOAKER
1. One who, or that which, soaks. 2. A hard drinker. South.
SOAK
1. To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt
SOAKAGE
The act of soaking, or the state of being soaked; also, the quantity that enters or issues by soaking.
DRENCHE
To drown. In the sea he drenched. Chaucer.
INDRENCH
To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown. Shak.
WATER-SOAK
To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.
ASOAK
Soaking.
HORSE-DRENCH
1. A dose of physic for a horse. Shak. 2. The appliance by which the dose is administred.
BEDRENCH
To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak. Shak.
ROWETT
See ROWEN