As adjectives the difference between soaked and drenched
is that soaked is drenched with water, or other liquid while drenched is completely wet; sodden.
Does soaked mean wet?
To make thoroughly wet or saturated: I soaked the flowers with the hose. We got soaked by the rain. 2.
What does drenched to the skin mean?
Drenched, extremely wet, as in What a downpour; I'm soaked to the skin, or She fell in the stream and was soaked through. The implication in this idiom implies that water has penetrated one's clothing, so one is thoroughly wet.
