Definition of soakage
plural -s
1
: liquid that soaks through or out;
also
: the amount gained by absorption or lost by seepage
- an analysis of the well water reveals no soakage from the cesspool
2
: the act or process of soaking : the state of being soaked
- increase the soakage of rain into the geological layers which store water
- —Sydney (Australia) Bulletin
- white oak … is impervious to soakage through the pores
- —F. P. Hankerson
