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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

Submerge in a liquid.

2 soak

Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.

synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, surcharge.

Dutch: ontroven

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 ... show more

Roget 337: be watery etc. adj.; reek.    add water, water, wet; moisten etc. 339; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; ... show more

Dutch: doordrenken

4 soak

Leave as a guarantee in return for money.

synonyms: hock, pawn.

Dutch: belenen, verpanden

5 soak

Beat severely.

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, ... show more

7 soak

Become drunk or drink excessively.

synonyms: hit it up, inebriate, souse.

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, ... show more

Dutch: weken

9 soak

Heat a metal prior to working it.


Moby thesaurus: absorb, alcoholic, assimilate, bang, bash, bat, bathe, belt, bender, bib, bibber, biff, bleed, bleed white, bonk, booze, boozehound, boozer, bottle sucker, brannigan ... show more.

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