soaking

CIDE DICTIONARY

soaking, a. 

 Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

soaking

absorbent, adsorbent, assimilative, awash, bathed, bibulous, blotting, brewing, chemisorptive, chemosorptive, concentration, dampening, decoction, deluged, digestive, dipped, distillation, dousing, dowsing, drench, drenched, drenching, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, ducking, dunking, endosmotic, engulfed, exosmotic, expression, flooded, humectant, imbibitory, imbruement, imbuement, immersed, impregnation, infiltration, infusion, injection, instillation, instillment, interpenetration, inundated, irrigational, irriguous, leaching, lixiviation, macerated, maceration, marination, moistening, oozing, osmotic, overflowed, penetration, percolation, permeated, permeation, pervasion, pressing, pulping, rendering, rendition, resorbent, saturated, saturating, saturation, seeping, seething, soak, soakage, soaked, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, sorbent, souse, soused, sousing, spongeous, spongy, squeezing, steeped, steeping, streaming, submerged, submersed, suffusion, swamped, thirsty, watering, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, wet, wetting, whelmed, wringing wet

ROGET THESAURUS

soaking

Moisture

N moisture, moistness, humidity, humectation, madefaction, dew, serein, marsh, hygrometry, hygrometer, moist, damp, watery, madid, roric, undried, humid, sultry, wet, dank, luggy, dewy, roral, rorid, roscid, juicy, wringing wet, soaking wet, wet through to the skin, saturated, swashy, soggy, dabbled, reeking, dripping, soaking, soft, sodden, sloppy, muddy, swampy, irriguous.