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Drenching vs Soaking - What's the difference?

drenching | soaking |

As verbs the difference between drenching and soaking

is that drenching is present participle of lang=en while soaking is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between drenching and soaking

is that drenching is the act by which something is drenched; a soaking while soaking is immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.

As an adjective soaking is

extremely wet; saturated.

drenching

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is drenched; a soaking.

    • soaking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
    • 1906' ''"We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a '''soaking for our pains".'' — Horatio Alger, ''Joe the Hotel Boy , Chapter 2.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Extremely wet; saturated.
    • 1847' ''I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still '''soaking wet with the floods of yesterday. — Charlotte Bronte, ''Jane Eyre , Chapter 5.