soak
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.
synonyms: soakage, soaking.
Dutch: weken, doorweken
2 soak
Washing something by allowing it to soak.
synonym: soaking.
verb
1 soak
2 soak
3 soak
Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto.
synonyms: douse, dowse, drench, sop, souse.
Roget 339:
moisten,
wet;
humect†,
humectate†;
sponge,
damp,
bedew;
imbue,
imbrue,
infiltrate,
saturate;
soak,
drench
etc.
(water)
337.
be moist
etc.
adj.;
not have a dry thread;
perspire
etc.
(exude)
295.
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Roget 337:
be watery
etc.
adj.;
reek.
add water,
water,
wet;
moisten
etc.
339;
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.
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Dutch: doordrenken
4 soak
Leave as a guarantee in return for money.
synonyms: hock, pawn.
Dutch: belenen, verpanden
5 soak
6 soak
Make drunk (with alcoholic drinks).
synonyms: inebriate, intoxicate.
Roget 959:
get drunk,
be drunk
etc.
adj.;
see double;
take a drop too much,
take a glass too much;
drink;
tipple,
tope,
booze,
bouse [Fr.],
guzzle,
swill [Slang],
soak [Slang],
sot,
bum [U.S.],
besot,
have a jag on,
have a buzz on,
lush [Slang],
bib,
swig,
carouse;
sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus†;
take to drinking;
drink hard,
drink deep,
drink like a fish;
have one's swill [Slang],
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
etc.
(drink up)
298;
go to the alehouse,
go to the public house.
make one drunk
etc.
adj.;
inebriate,
fuddle,
befuddle,
fuzzle†,
get into one's head.
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7 soak
8 soak
Fill, soak, or imbue totally:
— Soak the bandage with disinfectant.
synonym: imbue.
Roget 300:
insert;
introduce,
intromit;
put into,
run into;
import;
inject;
interject
etc.
298;
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†
etc.
(make a hole)
260†.
imbed;
immerse,
immerge,
merge;
bathe,
soak
etc.
(water)
337;
dip,
plunge
etc.
310.
bury
etc.
(inter)
363.
insert itself,
lodge itself
&c.;
plunge in medias res.
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Dutch: weken
9 soak
Heat a metal prior to working it.
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