soaked /səʊkt $ soʊkt/ BrE AmE adjective
1 . very wet or wearing very wet clothes SYN drenched :
I was soaked and very cold.
It was raining so hard we were quickly soaked through (=completely wet) .
He came in from the barn, soaked to the skin.
Her shoes got soaked as she walked through the wet grass.
blood-soaked/oil-soaked etc
his blood-soaked clothes
2 . be soaked in/with something to be full of a particular quality SYN be steeped in something :
a city soaked in history
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THESAURUS
■ very wet
▪ soaked [not before noun] very wet all the way through – used especially about people and their clothes:
It absolutely poured with rain and we got soaked.
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His shirt was soaked with blood.
▪ drenched [not before noun] very wet – used about a person or area after a lot of rain or water has fallen on them:
Everyone got drenched when a huge wave hit the boat.
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The garden was completely drenched after the rain.
▪ saturated extremely wet, and unable to take in any more water or liquid:
His bandage was saturated with blood.
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The floods were the result of heavy rainfall on already saturated soil.
▪ waterlogged /ˈwɔːtəlɒɡd $ ˈwɒːtərlɒːɡd, ˈwɑː-, -lɑːɡd/ used about ground that has water on its surface because it is so wet that it cannot take in any more:
The game was cancelled because the field was waterlogged.
▪ sodden British English very wet with water – used about clothes and the ground. Sodden is less common than soaked :
The ground was still sodden.
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He took off his sodden shirt.