soak

soak  (sk)

v. soaked, soak·ing, soaks

v.tr.

1.

a. To make thoroughly wet or saturated by or as if by placing in liquid.

b. To immerse in liquid for a period of time.

2. To absorb (liquid, for example) through or as if through pores or interstices.

3. To remove (a stain, for example) by continued immersion: soaked out the grease spots.

4. Informal To take in or accept mentally, especially eagerly and easily: soaked up the gossip.

5. Informal

a. To drink (alcoholic liquor), especially to excess.

b. To make (a person) drunk.

6. Slang To overcharge (a person).

v.intr.

1. To be immersed until thoroughly saturated.

2. To penetrate or permeate; seep: The speaker paused to let her words soak in.

3. Slang To drink to excess.

n.

1.

a. The act or process of soaking.

b. The condition of being soaked.

2. Liquid in which something may be soaked.

3. Slang A drunkard.

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[Middle English soken, from Old English socian; see seu-² in Indo-European roots.]

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soaker n.

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soak

Verb

1. to put or lie in a liquid so as to become thoroughly wet

2. (usually foll. by in, into)(of a liquid) to penetrate or permeate

3. (usually foll. by in, up)to take in; absorb: white clay soaks up excess oil

Noun

1. a soaking or being soaked

2. Slang a person who drinks very heavily [Old English sōcian]

soaking nadj

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	soak - 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" soakage, soaking natural action, natural process, action, activity - a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); "the action of natural forces"; "volcanic activity"
	2.	soak - washing something by allowing it to soak soaking lavation, washing, wash - the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
Verb	1.	soak - submerge in a liquid; "I soaked in the hot tub for an hour" immerse, plunge - thrust or throw into; "Immerse yourself in hot water"
	2.	soak - rip off; ask an unreasonable price fleece, gazump, overcharge, plume, rob, surcharge, hook, pluck extort, gouge, wring, rack, squeeze - obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him" cheat, rip off, chisel - deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"
	3.	soak - cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" souse, dowse, drench, sop, douse wet - cause to become wet; "Wet your face" brine - soak in brine bedraggle, draggle - make wet and dirty, as from rain bate - soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins" ret - place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue sluice, flush - irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"
	4.	soak - leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch" hock, pawn commerce, commercialism, mercantilism - transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) consign, charge - give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage"
	5.	soak - beat severely beat up, work over, beat - give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"
	6.	soak - make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) inebriate, intoxicate affect - act physically on; have an effect upon; "the medicine affects my heart rate" fuddle, befuddle - make stupid with alcohol
	7.	soak - become drunk or drink excessively hit it up, inebriate, souse booze, drink, fuddle - consume alcohol; "We were up drinking all night"
	8.	soak - fill, soak, or imbue totally; "soak the bandage with disinfectant" imbue steep, infuse - let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse; "steep the blossoms in oil"; "steep the fruit in alcohol" brew - sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor; "the tea is brewing" impregnate, saturate - infuse or fill completely; "Impregnate the cloth with alcohol"
	9.	soak - heat a metal prior to working it heat, heat up - make hot or hotter; "the sun heats the oceans"; "heat the water on the stove"

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soak

verb 1. steep, immerse, submerge, infuse, marinate Cookery dunk, submerse

verb 2. wet, damp, saturate, drench, douse, moisten, suffuse, wet through, waterlog, souse, drouk Scot.

verb 3. penetrate, pervade, permeate, enter, get in, infiltrate, diffuse, seep, suffuse, make inroads (into)

soak something up absorb, suck up, take in or up, drink in, assimilate

Translations

soak [səuk] vt (= drench) → empapar (= put in water); remojar

vi → remojarse, estar a remojo

soak in vi → penetrar

soak up vt → absorber

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soak [səuk] vt → faire or laisser tremper (= drench); tremper

vi → tremper;

to be soaked through → être trempé jusqu'aux os

soak in vi → pénétrer, être absorbé(e)

soak up vt → absorber

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soak [səuk] vt (drench) → durchnässen;

(steep) → einweichen

vi → einweichen;

to be soaked through → völlig durchnässt sein

soak in soak vi → einziehen

soak up soak vt → aufsaugen

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soak [səuk] vt → inzuppare [+ clothes]; mettere a mollo

vi → inzupparsi; [clothes] → essere a mollo;

to be soaked through → essere fradicio

soak in vi → penetrare

soak up vt → assorbire