soak: Meaning and Definition of
soak
Pronunciation: (sōk), [key]
— v.i.
- to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
- to pass, as a liquid, through pores, holes, or the like: The rain soaked through the tear in the umbrella.
- to be thoroughly wet.
- to penetrate or become known to the mind or feelings (fol. by in): The lesson didn't soak in.
- to drink immoderately, esp. alcoholic beverages: They were soaking at the bar.
—v.t.
- to place or keep in liquid in order to saturate thoroughly; steep.
- to wet thoroughly; saturate or drench.
- to permeate thoroughly, as liquid or moisture does.
- to heat (a piece) for reworking.
- to intoxicate (oneself&hasp;) by drinking an excess of liquor.
- to beat hard; punish severely: I was soaked for that mistake.
- to extract or remove by or as by soaking (often fol. by out): to soak a stain out of a napkin.
- to overcharge: He was soaked by the waiter.
- Blotting paper soaks up ink.
- to absorb or take in or up by absorption:Blotting paper soaks up ink.
- to absorb with one's mind or senses; take in:to soak up information.
- Slang.to drink to excess:He can really soak up the booze.
—n.
- the act or state of soaking or the state of being soaked.
- the liquid in which anything is soaked.
- a heavy drinker.
- any small area of land, as near a spring or at the foot of a hill, that becomes swamplike or holds water after a period of heavy rain.
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