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Soaking vs Waterlogged - What's the difference?

soaking | waterlogged |

As adjectives the difference between soaking and waterlogged

is that soaking is extremely wet; saturated while waterlogged is soaked with water.

As a verb soaking

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun soaking

is immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.

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.

    waterlogged

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • soaked with water
  • (nautical) in danger of sinking because of excess water onboard

    • Related terms

    * waterlog