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
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 Carnegie, David Wynford
Then the billabong "petering out" altogether, and the soakage threatening to follow suit, its yield was kept strictly for personal needs, and Dan and the Maluka gave their attention to the elements.
From We of the Never-Never by Gunn, Jeannie
When they were at last enabled to leave the Waterloo Wells, they found themselves plunged into the salt lake country, where the native inhabitants exist on shallow wells and soakage springs.
From The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work by Favenc, Ernest
The Dwarf Well had a better supply than any we had seen, and it is possible that there is some soakage into it from the surrounding country.
From Spinifex and Sand by Carnegie, David Wynford
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