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adjective

Definition of water-soakednext
as in saturated
containing, covered with, or thoroughly penetrated by water make sure that the bandages don't get water-soaked when you take a shower

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water-soaked

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verb

past tense of water-soak
as in wet
to make wet the fire is out, but the firefighters water-soaked most of the house in the process

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for water-soaked
  1. saturated
  2. wet
  3. saturate
  4. drowned
  5. washed
  6. flooded
  7. sodden
  8. soggy
Adjective
  • Follow the journalist for a continued conversation about the risks of injectables, why founders need to invest in TikTok, and how to maintain success as a beauty brand in 2024’s saturated market.
    — Dahvi Shira, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Some coffee drinks are loaded with sugar, while others are high in saturated fat.
    — Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, RDN, Health, 12 Mar. 2025
Definition of saturated
Verb
  • Shivering in Cassidy’s arms, tears wetting her cheeks, naked, so vulnerable.
    — Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The weather will transition from sunny to wet from March 20 to March 31, that first week, with temperatures staying on the cooler side, the Old Farmer’s Almanac forecast said.
    — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacramento Bee, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of wet
Adjective
  • Alternatively, saturate cotton balls with essential oil and place them near all possible entry points.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Chief among them are efforts to train crews to identify and treat an overdose and a push to saturate fleets with naloxone, the opioid antagonist, commonly administered as a nasal spray under the trade name Narcan, that can reverse overdoses and retrieve a fading patient from a mortal slide.
    — C.J. Chivers James Patrick Cronin Elena Hecht Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 6 June 2024
Definition of saturate
Verb
  • The results, which are beautifully austere, flooded by sunlight but somehow cold, infuriate Van Buren, played with a masculine bluster by Guy Pearce, who sounds as if his idea of the Breakfast of Champions was a bowl of ground glass drowned in whole milk.
    — Tom Gliatto, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Things not only got hot, the blazing solar plasma drowned out communications with Earth.
    — David Szondy, New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of drowned
Verb
  • There was a lot of talk about Aaron Rodgers being washed.
    — C. Isaiah Smalls II, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Separately, norovirus outbreaks can also spring from food that was contaminated at the source and that’s often eaten raw, like shellfish harvested from virus-laden water or produce washed with it.
    — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of washed
Adjective
  • Never attempt to drive through a flooded roadway or flowing stream.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2025
  • In all, 94 people, including 31 children, were rescued from flooded homes following the 3 a.m. response by city first responders on Monday, Duggan said.
    — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 19 Feb. 2025
Definition of flooded
Adjective
  • After 15 years of sailing from house to house, the Pequod has finally floated into the Met, its splintering wood, freezing iron, and sodden ropes transfigured into digital drawing.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Two floods — and two rounds of ripping out drywall and throwing away sodden carpets and toys — later, the Martins reconsidered.
    — Gregory Barber, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of sodden
Adjective
  • Remove the soggy mulch in springtime to avoid problems with root rot or crown rot.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Also, make sure the container has drainage holes because this plant will not tolerate soggy roots.
    — Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2025
Definition of soggy
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