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Submerge in a liquid
Answer for the clue "Submerge in a liquid ", 7 letters:
soaking
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES soaking/sopping/wringing wet (= very wet ) ▪ His suit was soaking wet. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Tom's shoes were soaking wet. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Overall labour requirement is minimised by the use of ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
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 , ...
Usage examples of soaking.
Five of the Alaunt hounds were stretched out in front of Azhure, soaking up the warmth of the fire.
Angry curses competed with the siren as the pursuing security guards, already rattled by the amuck scooter, slid and slipped on the suddenly soaking floor tiles.
In the hall were two stretchers, on each a soldier, both feverish, both bandaged, one partially, the other, Hiraga, completely--head, feet, and hands--outside his soaking uniform.
Marluxion picked up a very wet, green Bitsy, his sigh was loud enough to blow the water off her soaking wings.
The Quartermasters marked bivouac areas for the various battalions in the soaking fields.
Charlie Weller, who was allowed to bivouac with the veterans because they liked him, plucked a head of soaking wet rye and shook his head sadly.
The drawling voice which answered filled the lobby, ascended to the green skylight far above, moved inexorably outward from the place of utterance to the balcony edges, thrust through the banisters to flow into the aisles of books, soaking each volume in turn so that the very bindings became redolent with that sound, not echoing but vibrating nonetheless in a reverberating hum larger than the building itself, a seeking pressure which left no corner unexplored.
No doubt it was one of the computer jocks in data processing, calling to complain about the enormous amount of CPU time her cladistic regression program was soaking up.
They laughed manically as the clearish yellow gasoline fell about the zombie, soaking into his clothes and skin.
Dawson soaking them in a solution of potassium dichromate to harden them.
He also felt that the dark staining of the bones, taken as a sign of great antiquity, was caused by Dawson soaking them in a solution of potassium dichromate to harden them.
Foster lay dead on the ground, blood soaking into the soil as it dripped from his open disposal valve.
She paused, and Saken and Erdene picked up the kettle and poured steaming water down over the wool, hair, and mat, soaking every inch.
Their greatest pleasure was to sit along a girder and open their amplified senses to the depths of space, watching stars past the limits of ultraviolet and infrared, or staring into the flocculate crawling plaque of the surface of the sun, or just sitting and soaking in watts of solar energy through their skins while they listened with wired ears to the warbling of Van Allen belts and the musical tick of pulsars.
And, if he wanted to reason out a Deal with a contrary-minded Gazook, he began the Negotiations by soaking the Adversary behind the Ear and frisking him before he came to.