About The Word Soak
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Soak
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What's The Definition Of Soak?
[n] washing something by allowing it to soak
[n] the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid); "a good soak put life back in the wagon" [v] cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" [v] heat a metal prior to working it [v] fill, soak, or imbue totally; "saturate the bandage with disinfectant" [v] become drunk; drink excessively [v] make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) [v] beat severely; slang [v] submerge in a liquid; "I soaked in the hot tub for an hour" [v] rip off; ask an unreasonable price [v] give as a guarantee Synonyms | Synonyms for Soak: douse | dowse | drench | fleece | gazump | hit it up | hock | hook | imbue | inebriate | intoxicate | overcharge | pawn | pluck | plume | rob | soakage | soaking | soaking | sop | souse | souse | surcharge Related Terms | Find terms related to Soak: See Also | action | activity | affect | bate | beat | beat | beat up | bedraggle | befuddle | bill | booze | brew | brine | charge | cheat | chisel | consign | drink | extort | flush | fuddle | gouge | heat | heat up | immerse | impregnate | infuse | lavation | natural action | natural process | plunge | rack | ret | rip off | saturate | sluice | steep | wash | washing | wet | work over | wring Soak In Webster's Dictionary \Soak\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Soaked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Soaking}.] [OE. soken, AS. socian to sioak, steep, fr.
s?can, s?gan, to suck. See {Suck}.]
1. To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance
has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or
other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or
freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt
meat, salt fish, or the like.
2. To drench; to wet thoroughly.
Their land shall be soaked with blood. --Isa. xxiv.
7.
3. To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a
sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
4. To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; --
often with through.
The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through
wreaths of snow. --Sir W.
Scott.
5. Fig.: To absorb; to drain. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton.
\Soak\, v. i. 1. To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak. 2. To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter. 3. To drink intemperately or gluttonously. [Slang] |
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