Synonyms of soaking

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adjective

as in dripping

containing, covered with, or thoroughly penetrated by water

the fisherman couldn't wait to take off his soaking socks

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dripping
• saturated
• bathed
• saturate
• wet
• washed
• soaked
• flooded
• drenched
• sopping
• soggy
• sodden
• watered
• waterlogged
• water-soaked
• moist
• damp
• logged
• awash
• flushed
• bedraggled
• submerged
• drowned
• soused
• doused
• dowsed
• soppy
• splashed
• watery
• rinsed
• steeped
• dipped
• overflowed
• hydrated
• inundated
• aqueous
• humid
• irrigated
• swamped
• deluged
• dunked
• sluiced
• dampish
• clammy
• dank
• boggy
• seepy
• sloppy
• wettish
• laved
• miry
• squashy
• semimoist

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dry
• arid
• waterless
• unwatered
• bone-dry
• waterproof
• baked
• dehydrated
• watertight
• water-repellent
• hyperarid
• water-resistant
• ultradry
• parched
• droughty
• sear
• thirsty
• sunbaked
• wrung
• sere
• freeze-dried

soaking

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noun

as in gouging

Synonyms & Similar Words

• gouging
• overcharging
• wile
• dodge
• jig
• stratagem
• device
• counterfeit
• fake
• ploy
• phoney
• forgery
• trick
• scheme
• gimmick
• hoax
• racket
• sham
• phony
• sleight
• humbug
• pyramid scheme
• thimblerig
• cross
• three-card monte
• shell game
• Ponzi scheme
• fix
• sting
• con
• rip-off
• fiddle
• swindle
• bunko
• scam
• fraud
• hustle
• flimflam
• bunco

soaking

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verb

present participle of soak

1

as in saturating

to wet thoroughly with liquid

we ran for home as soon as the rain started, but our clothes still ended up soaked

Synonyms & Similar Words

• saturating
• drowning
• drenching
• immersing
• macerating
• impregnating
• steeping
• dipping
• sopping
• washing
• submerging
• sousing
• marinating
• soddening
• penetrating
• bathing
• seething
• watering
• presoaking
• waterlogging
• inundating
• hydrating
• infiltrating
• permeating
• moistening
• water-soaking
• dousing
• swamping
• swilling
• dowsing
• humidifying
• damping
• dampening

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• drying
• wringing (out)
• searing
• dehydrating
• draining
• emptying
• voiding
• parching
• desiccating
• dehumidifying

2

as in stinging

to charge (someone) too much for goods or services

a merchant who soaks the tourists every summer

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stinging
• gouging
• cheating
• overcharging
• surcharging
• sticking
• defrauding
• clipping
• fleecing
• skinning
• mischarging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• undercharging

3

as in wetting

to make wet

that downpour soaked my hair, and now I look like a sight

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wetting
• washing
• drowning
• flooding
• rinsing
• drenching
• bathing
• watering
• sopping
• dousing
• flushing
• dowsing
• dipping
• waterlogging
• submerging
• showering
• sprinkling
• wetting down
• splashing
• water-soaking
• damping
• sousing
• moistening
• soddening
• bedraggling
• saturating
• hydrating
• drizzling
• inundating
• humidifying
• misting
• moisturizing
• dampening
• deluging
• overflowing
• impregnating
• steeping
• sluicing
• irrigating
• swamping
• laving
• dunking
• sloshing
• hosing (down)
• rehydrating
• bedewing
• aspersing
• ducking
• rewetting
• rewashing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• drying
• scorching
• dehydrating
• searing
• evaporating
• parching
• desiccating
• dewatering
• freeze-drying
• wringing
• dehumidifying
• drip-drying

4

as in drinking

to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages

depressed about his love life, he repaired to a bar to soak

Synonyms & Similar Words

• drinking
• boozing
• revelling
• reveling
• guzzling
• tippling
• bibbing
• hitting the bottle
• carousing
• lushing (up)
• boozing it up
• imbibing
• liquoring (up)
• nipping

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• abstaining