We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of soaking in English
Portuguese
impregnação Catalan
remull Synonyms
Examples for "drenching"
Examples for "drenching"
1
Quick, maddening, drenching, it comes; enveloping them in wet in a moment.
2
MetService said Hawke's Bay could be in line for a drenching tonight.
3
But it is lovely enough even as seen through the drenching rain.
4
It's drenching our windows, and I'm glad we're safe inside our cave.
5
It came with a sudden plunge upon the earth, drenching all things.
1
They souse themselves in water that has been heated to 140 deg.
2
This, and enough, premised, I go souse into my personal history.
3
Killin' time, you know-makesyou think of boiling souse and head-cheese.
4
GLADYS: Ah, then he will have to cut out his souse.
5
So you hadn't heard how Bud's turned out to be a regular souse?
1
I have had quite enough of a salt water sousing.
2
I had an uncomfortable journey upstream, for I was very wet from my sousing.
3
Old Abe followed cautiously, bathing his temples and his wrists before sousing all over.
4
Of course after sousing the poor girl I had to be attentive to her, hadn't I?
5
The cork reported on drawing, as the best diver doth on sousing from Warwick bridge into Avon.
Usage of soaking in English
1
Farmers too can look forward to their crops getting a good soaking.
2
The words of the ancient philosopher were soaking in with the rain.
3
I can hear the faint sound of it soaking up the water.
4
The sea rises to my knee soaking the hem of my robe.
5
At the end of the soaking period, set for the regular cycle.
6
Six months after the attack, he is soaking up California's winter sunshine.
7
Strain soaking liquid through sieve lined with paper towel and reserve separately.
8
In her family bathroom she did a lot of soaking & reading.
9
In a short time, the rain reached them, soaking them even more.
10
Now it was commencing to fall in a fine but soaking drizzle.
11
Add the stock to the mushroom soaking liquid to equal 3 cups.
12
Not even the soaking given by the rain offered any effective resistance.
13
Kit Claridge spent most of her time soaking up Phelan medical knowledge.
14
Pour over gelatine which has been soaking in ¼ cup cold water.
15
Now prepare a filling by soaking sufficient stale bread in cold water.
16
He waits for the applause to abate, soaking up the hall's energy.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Soaking through the time
Soaking across language varieties
Australia
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common
More variants