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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
soaked
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be drenched/soaked with sweat (=be covered in a lot of sweat)
▪ His shirt was drenched with sweat.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After a morning walk through the meadow, my shoes were completely soaked through.
▪ Don't leave the cushions in the garden. They'll get soaked if it rains.
▪ Panting and soaked with sweat, Ron came running into the house.
▪ When the men came in from the storm, they were soaked to the skin.
▪ Your clothes are soaked. Leave them in front of the fire to dry.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gasping for breath, soaked and dishevelled, Duvall backed away from the doors.
▪ He ran out into the street, his soaked shoes splashing water over his trousers, muddying his coat.
▪ His plimsolls were now caked in heavy clods of wet earth and his jersey was already wet from his soaked mackintosh.
▪ Lowering his denims to his knees, he winced as the blood soaked cloth pulled free from his wound.
▪ Remove soaked parts, wipe and brush as needed.
▪ She shook blankets and soaked towels and hung out rugs and cleared rubbish and freshened wardrobes.
▪ They were soaked right through to the skin and shivering in the cold.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Soaked

Soak \Soak\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Soaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Soaking.] [OE. soken, AS. socian to sioak, steep, fr. s?can, s?gan, to suck. See Suck.]

  1. To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.

  2. To drench; to wet thoroughly.

    Their land shall be soaked with blood.
    --Isa. xxiv. 7.

  3. To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.

  4. To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through.

    The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  5. Fig.: To absorb; to drain. [Obs.]
    --Sir H. Wotton.

Wiktionary
soaked

  1. Drenched with water, or other liquid. v

  2. (en-past of: soak)

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WordNet
soaked

  1. 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, soaking, sodden, sopping, soppy]

  2. very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tight, tipsy, wet]

Usage examples of "soaked".

He soaked the compress with bright yellow acriflavine solution, and bandaged it firmly into place.

I soaked it up like a sponge, listening eagerly to the advice of adoptive parents, their grown children, clinical psychologists, advocates, social workers, and adoption resource professionals.

Murphy ordered the engineer from aft, and in a few moments Jackson Vaughn appeared, hair soaked with sweat, coveralls stained with dirt, a Beretta 9-mm automatic stuffed into his belt.

The garment was filthy and soaked with blood at the neck, but Alec obeyed quickly, pulling it on with a shudder of revulsion.

And in the afternoon we went for a row on the river, pulling easily up the anabranch and floating down with the stream under the shade of the river timber--instead of going to sleep and waking up helpless and soaked in perspiration, to find the women with headaches, as many do on Christmas Day in Australia.

Add 1 large can of tomatoes, 2 more ancho chilies that have been soaked in warm water, and enough chicken stock to make the whole mixture very wet.

On each cane shaft, tied behind the iron arrowhead, was a tuft of unravelled hemp rope that had been soaked in pitch, which spluttered and then burned fiercely when touched with the slow-match, The archers loosed their arrows, which sailed up in a high, flaming parabola and dropped down to peg into the timbers of an anchored vessel.

At least some of that many normal arquebus would have had their priming soaked during the crossing, but all of these weapons fired successfully into the mass of pirates hammering at the shield wall.

You must dress in short skins like the Baptist to keep from getting your clothes soaked when wading across them.

A heavy rain during the hours before dawn had soaked Batman to the skin.

By the time Batman could clearly see his surroundings it was raining, a misty, intermittent drizzle that turned the ground to soup and soaked the Americans through to the skin in minutes.

He teaches that a teaspoonful of the bruised seeds if boiled in water and taken hot with bread soaked therein, wonderfully helps such as are languishing from hardened excrements, even though they may have vomited up their faeces.

A few moments later, as the crowd held its aching sides and mopped its eyes, Samson the Strong Man hauled prone, soaked, semi-conscious, fearfully hallucinating Buffo off up the gangway that led to the foyer as little children gave him one last tittering poke for luck before he vanished as from the face of the earth, while the clowns ran round and round the tiers of seats, kissing babies, distributing bonbons and laughing, laughing, laughing to hide their broken hearts.

It ran out of the corners of his mouth, formed brief pools in the bushy caverns of his ears and soaked on into the sofa.

I, nude and chained, felt my body suddenly soaked with the heat of desire.