намо́кнуть — meaning in English

English meaning

• soak verb To leave something in liquid until it becomes thoroughly wet.
• wet adj Covered in or soaked with liquid, usually water.

Senses

намо́кнуть is used for these senses in English:

• get wet (literally, ambitransitive) To come into contact with, or to put (something) into contact with, water, rain, mist, or another liquid.
• soak (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
• wet (transitive, intransitive) To make or become wet.

soak — full definition

1. verb To leave something in liquid until it becomes thoroughly wet.
2. verb Informal: to charge someone an excessive amount of money.
3. noun A period of being immersed in liquid.

wet — full definition

1. adj Covered in or soaked with liquid, usually water.
2. adj Describing weather that brings a lot of rain.
3. adj British informal: lacking backbone or firmness of character; feeble.
4. verb To make something wet by applying liquid to it.

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