soakage

American  

[soh-kij] / ˈsoʊ kɪdʒ /

noun

1. the act of soaking.

2. liquid that has seeped out or been absorbed.

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soakage British  

/ ˈsəʊkɪdʒ /

noun

1. the process or a period in which a permeable substance is soaked in a liquid

2. liquid that has been soaked up or has seeped out

3. Also called: soak. a small pool of water or swampy patch

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Etymology

Origin of soakage

First recorded in 1760–70; soak + -age

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Example Sentences

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soakage

Also, the industry's estimate of 96,000,000 gallons for leakage, evaporation and soakage was too high.

From Time Magazine Archive

The water had now reached within five feet of the top: the rise was slower, showing that the volume had lessened; the soakage, too, was helping, but the water still gained.

From Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero by Francis Hopkinson Smith

Hubbe dug it out to bedrock and proved it to be merely a local soakage in the gravelly bed of a narrow gully.

From Spinifex and Sand by David Wynford Carnegie

This spring or soakage, whichever it may be, is in black sand, though the sand outside the little basin is yellowish white.

From Spinifex and Sand by David Wynford Carnegie

At first we hoped the hole would prove to be a soakage, but in this we were disappointed, and had to resort to our old methods of box-sinking and clearing out the sand.

From Spinifex and Sand by David Wynford Carnegie

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