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soakingly

adverb

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Wiktionary

adv

Etymology: From soaking + -ly.

  1. To the point of soaking; imparting extreme wetness.

    “The temperature at noon had risen to 33 deg., and everything was more soakingly wet than ever, if that was possible.”

    “There are people who even in this enlightened age vegetate upon the face of the earth and know not these things, and a very great many more who do not know that they ought to select a soakingly wet day to appreciate the Falls of Niagara at their highest value.”