Soaker

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.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	soaker - a heavy rain downpour, pelter, torrent, cloudburst, deluge, waterspout rain, rainfall - water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere
	2.	soaker - a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, souse drunk, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino - a chronic drinker