soak
verb (used without object)
to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
well-soaked
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a word derived from
soak.
Example Sentences
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She might slip a salmon fillet atop chevroned layers of lemon slices or onto a well-soaked cedar plank.
From Washington Post ● May 17, 2022
This perfume is rather difficult to describe, but when a rainy day in London crams an omnibus with well-soaked and steaming multitudes, the atmosphere in the vehicle somewhat approaches to the smell of the jack-fruit.
From Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon by Sir Samuel White Baker
When the simmering point is reached, crush the fruit with a well-soaked wooden masher.
From Every Step in Canning by Grace Viall Gray
Now there was vigorous splashing and tugging, and then a jet black horse, shining as if he had been newly varnished, pulled a dripping wagon containing two well-soaked men upon a shelving shore.
From The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Mouths are too tender for well-soaked biscuit, and stomachs rebel against pemmican and fat bacon....
From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely
