sopping

adj

1. Soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping.

   “The grass was wet and the earth smelled of springtime. Fern's sneakers were sopping by the time she caught up with her father.”

   “A swirling, sopping, doomladen midmorning, take my word for it, and myself, as I say, an unborn ghost, not ordered, not delivered and certainly not paid for: myself a deaf microphone, planted but inactive in any but the biological meaning.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of sop

noun

1. A soaking.

   “There were hot miseries and cold miseries; saline unpleasantries, partial wettings and complete soppings; […]”