How to say "soaked" in Japanese

• びしょびしょCommon
  no-adjective, na-adjectiveCovers 'soaked, drenched, sopping': the mimetic form vividly depicts something dripping wet and waterlogged — clothes, hair, or the ground after a downpour — adding vivid, graphic emphasis.
  川下かわくだりでびしょびしょになった。↗

  I got soaked boating downriver.
• びしょ濡れびしょぬれCommon
  no-adjectiveCovers 'sopping wet, dripping wet, sodden': it states outright that someone or something is drenched through, most typically a person caught in a downpour, naming the state rather than mimetically depicting it.
  私わたしたちは夕立ゆうだちにあって、びしょ濡ぬれになった。↗

  We were drenched in the shower.

Both describe being thoroughly drenched with liquid: choose 「びしょびしょ」 for a vivid, mimetic picture of something sopping — clothes, hair, the ground — and 「びしょ濡れ」 to state that a person or thing is dripping wet, typically from rain.

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• びしょびしょsoaked
• びしょ濡れびしょぬれsopping wet
• びしゃびしゃsoaked
• ずぶ濡れずぶぬれdripping wet
• ぐしゃぐしゃsoggy
• びたびたdrenched
• じとじとdamp
• ぐしょ濡れぐしょぬれsopping wet
• ずぶずぶdrenched