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water-soaked

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of water-soaked

containing, covered with, or thoroughly penetrated by water
  • Make sure that the bandages don't get water-soaked when you take a shower.
Synonyms of water-soaked

awash, bathed, bedraggled, doused (also dowsed), drenched, dripping, logged, saturate, saturated, soaked, soaking, sodden, soggy, sopping, soppy, soused, washed, watered, waterlogged, watery, wet
Words Related to water-soaked

deluged, drowned, flooded, inundated, overflowed

submerged, swamped

hydrated

dipped, dunked, splashed

aqueous

steeped

flushed, irrigated, laved, rinsed, sluiced

clammy, damp, dampish, dank, humid, moist, semimoist, wettish

boggy, miry, seepy, sloppy, squashy
Near Antonyms of water-soaked

bone-dry, hyperarid, ultradry

waterproof, water-repellent, water-resistant, watertight

baked, dehydrated, freeze-dried

droughty, parched, sere (also sear), sunbaked, thirsty

wrung
Antonyms of water-soaked

arid, dry, unwatered, waterless

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