Adverb
To the point of soaking; imparting extreme wetness.
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The temperature at noon had risen to 33 deg., and everything was more soakingly wet than ever, if that was possible.
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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.