soakage
Americannoun
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the process or a period in which a permeable substance is soaked in a liquid
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liquid that has been soaked up or has seeped out
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Also called: soak. a small pool of water or swampy patch
Etymology
Origin of soakage
Example Sentences
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Also, the industry's estimate of 96,000,000 gallons for leakage, evaporation and soakage was too high.
From Time Magazine Archive
All soil which has become foul by the soakage of decaying or vegetable matter should be similarly treated.
From Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele
Also, the soakage in water for any length of time tends to relax the whole of the muscular system.
From Boating by W. B. Woodgate
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
So we decided on the northern course, and chose Mount Shenton, near which a soakage was marked, as our objective point.
From Spinifex and Sand by David Wynford Carnegie
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