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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. • 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. • 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. • The floods were the result of heavy rainfall on already saturated soil.
waterlogged
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. • He took off his sodden shirt.
Longman-Thesaurus
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adj. VERBS be, look | get ADV. absolutely, completely, thoroughly PHRASES soaked to the skin There was a sudden shower and we got soaked to the skin.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary