soaking (
http://definr.com/soaking)
adj : wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door
drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "a shirt saturated
with perspiration"; "his shoes were sopping (or
soaking)"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy
clothes" [syn:
drenched,
saturated,
soaked,
sodden,
sopping,
soppy]
n 1: 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" [syn:
soak,
soakage]
2: the act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a
good drenching" [syn:
drenching,
souse,
sousing]
3: washing something by allowing it to soak [syn:
soak]
adv : extremely; "dripping wet," "soaking wet" [syn:
sopping,
dripping]