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
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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
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
The visible supply of water was small, and we had grave doubts as to any soakage existing!
From Spinifex and Sand by David Wynford Carnegie
The desert was full of wild life, the balance of nature being preserved by the carnivorous animals preying on the herbivorous; trees watered by soakage from the Nile protected the undergrowth and encouraged occasional rainfall.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
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 Ernest Favenc
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