Synonyms for Soaking
soak·ing

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1. soak, soakage, soakingnoun

   the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)

   "a good soak put life back in the wagon"

   Synonyms:
   soak, sousing, drenching, souse, soakage, soaking

2. drenching, soaking, souse, sousingnoun

   the act of making something completely wet

   "he gave it a good drenching"

   Synonyms:
   alky, dipsomaniac, soaker, boozer, sousing, souse, soakage, lush, drenching, soaking, soak, alcoholic

3. soak, soakingadverb

   washing something by allowing it to soak

   Synonyms:
   soak, sousing, drenching, souse, soakage, soaking

4. soaking, sopping, drippingadverb

   extremely wet

   "dripping wet"; "soaking wet"

   Synonyms:
   dripping, soaking, sopping

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1. soakingadjective

   Synonyms:
   drenching, saturating

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1. List of paraphrases for "soaking":

   dipping

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1. Chris Christie:

   When she got off that ferry, she was walking down the street and she was wrapped in a blanket and soaking wet -- anybody who had been in lower Manhattan, they were hosed off by firehoses. They were covered with dust, that's' the first sight of my wife after having left her that morning. I just grabbed her, hugged her, got her in the car and got her home.

2. Melissa Piliang:

   Lots of sports gear incorporates that element these days, bras, socks, shorts, and underwear now come in a kind of nylon wicking material that will absorb the sweat and pull it away from the body so it can dry. The last thing you want to do is sit there in a soaking wet pair of underwear.

3. Morgan Brashear:

   Their two biggest frustrations with the dish-washing process are the soaking and the scrubbing.

4. Dwayne Johnson:

   Republicans, Democrats, independents, mayors, strategists, you name it. Just soaking in and listening, … I feel like the best thing I can do now is — give me years. Let me go to work and learn.

5. Clive Standen:

   Clive and I had all this gear on, and there was a rain machine, and when the gear gets wet it gets heavy, and we were cold and soaking and had sand stuck in our clothes.