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SOAKAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does soakage mean?
• SOAKAGE (noun)
The noun SOAKAGE has 1 sense:
1. the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
Familiarity information: SOAKAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
Context example:
a good soak put life back in the wagon
Hypernyms ("soakage" is a kind of...):
action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))
Derivation:
soak (submerge in a liquid)
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