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soakage

noun soak·age \ -kij , -kēj \

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

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