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soaking adjective soaked, dripping, saturated, drenched, sodden, waterlogged, streaming, sopping, wet through, soaked to the skin, wringing wet, like a drowned rat, droukit or drookit (Scot.) My face and raincoat were soaking. Translations soaking [ˈsəʊkɪŋ] A. ADJ (also soaking wet) [person] → calado hasta los huesos, empapado; [object] → empapado, calado by the time we got back we were soaking → cuando regresamos estábamos calados hasta los huesos or empapados your shoes are soaking wet → tienes los zapatos empapados or calados a soaking wet day → un día de muchísima lluvia B. N (in liquid) → remojo m; [of rain] → diluvio m to get a soaking → calarse hasta los huesos, empaparse soaking [ˈsəʊkɪŋ] adj (also soaking wet) → trempé(e) By the time we got back we were soaking → Nous sommes rentrés trempés. Your shoes are soaking wet → Tes chaussures sont trempées. so-and-so [ˈsəʊənsəʊ] soaking adj person → klitschnass, patschnass; object also → triefend adv soaking wet → triefend nass, klitschnass n (= steeping) → Einweichen nt no indef art; to get a soaking → patschnass werden; to give something a soaking → etw einweichen How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Rain is descending in pailfuls, and it is such a soaking kind of rain that--that you might catch cold from it, my darling, and the chill might go to your heart. To my surprise, my clothes had dried on me and there seemed no indications of catching cold, either from the last soaking or from the prolonged soaking from the foundering of the Martinez. He just had time to free his leg when she fell on one side, gasping painfully, and, making vain efforts to rise with her delicate, soaking neck, she fluttered on the ground at his feet like a shot bird. |
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