1. soak(n = noun.process) soakage, soaking - 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"
is a kind of action, activity, natural action, natural process
Derived forms verb soak8, verb soak1
2. soak(n = noun.act) soaking - washing something by allowing it to soak;
is a kind of lavation, wash, washing
1. soak(v = verb.contact) - submerge in a liquid; "I soaked in the hot tub for an hour"
is one way to immerse, plunge
Derived forms noun soak1, noun soakage1, noun soaking3, noun soaking1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s PP
2. soak(v = verb.possession) fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, surcharge - rip off; ask an unreasonable price;
is one way to cheat, chisel, rip off
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
3. soak(v = verb.change) douse, dowse, drench, sop, souse - cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"
is one way to wet
Derived forms noun soaker1, noun soaking2
Sample sentences:
They soak the cloth with water and alcohol
4. soak(v = verb.possession) hock, pawn - leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch"
is one way to charge, consign
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
5. soak(v = verb.contact) - beat severely;
is one way to beat, beat up, work over
Sample sentences:
They want to soak the prisoners
6. soak(v = verb.consumption) inebriate, intoxicate - make drunk (with alcoholic drinks);
is one way to affect
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
7. soak(v = verb.consumption) hit it up, inebriate, souse - become drunk or drink excessively;
is one way to booze, drink, fuddle
Derived form noun soaker2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
8. soak(v = verb.change) imbue - fill, soak, or imbue totally; "soak the bandage with disinfectant"
is one way to impregnate, saturate
Derived form noun soak1
Sample sentences:
Water and alcohol soak the cloth
9. soak(v = verb.change) - heat a metal prior to working it;
is one way to heat, heat up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
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. [1913 Webster]
2. To drench; to wet thoroughly. [1913 Webster]
"Their land shall be soaked with blood." [1913 Webster]
3. To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture. [1913 Webster]
4. To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through. [1913 Webster]
"The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow." [1913 Webster]
5. Fig.: To absorb; to drain. Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]
1. To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak. [1913 Webster]
2. To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter. [1913 Webster]
3. To drink intemperately or gluttonously. [1913 Webster]
soak, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. make or become thoroughly wet through saturation with or in liquid.
2 tr. (of rain etc.) drench.
3 tr. (foll. by in, up) a absorb (liquid). b acquire (knowledge etc.) copiously.
4 refl. (often foll. by in) steep (oneself) in a subject of study etc.
5 intr. (foll. by in, into, through) (of liquid) make its way or penetrate by saturation.
6 tr. colloq. extract money from by an extortionate charge, taxation, etc. (soak the rich).
7 intr. colloq. drink persistently, booze.
8 tr. (as soaked adj.) very drunk.
--n.
1 the act of soaking or the state of being soaked.
2 a drinking-bout.
3 colloq. a hard drinker.
Derivative:
soakage n. soaker n. soaking n. & adj.
Etymology:
OE socian rel. to soc sucking at the breast, sucan SUCK
VB get drunk, be drunk, see double, take a drop too much, take a glass too much, drink, tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse, sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus, take to drinking, drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish, have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you, liquor, liquor up, wet one's whistle, take a whet, crack a bottle, pass the bottle, toss off, go to the alehouse, go to the public house, make one drunk, inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle, get into one's head.
VB insert, introduce, intromit, put into, run into, import, inject, interject, infuse, instill, inoculate, impregnate, imbue, imbrue, graft, ingraft, bud, plant, implant, dovetail, obtrude, thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in, drive in, pop in, whip in, drop in, put in, impact, empierce, imbed, immerse, immerge, merge, bathe, soak, dip, plunge, bury, insert itself, lodge itself, plunge in medias res.
VB be watery, reek, add water, water, wet, moisten, dilute, dip, immerse, merge, immerge, submerge, plunge, souse, duck, drown, soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench, dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge, syringe, inject, gargle.
VB moisten, wet, humect, humectate, sponge, damp, bedew, imbue, imbrue, infiltrate, saturate, soak, drench, be moist, not have a dry thread, perspire.