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water-soaked

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verb

past tense of water-soak

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for water-soaked
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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“Water-soaked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/water-soaked. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.

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