soaking


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]