Soak

Quick meaning: Soak is a verb meaning (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.

Meaning

(intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
2. (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
3. (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
4. (originally US slang, figurative, transitive) To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.
5. (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
6. (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
7. (slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.

Example Sentences

Their land shall be soaked with blood.

Soak the beans overnight before cooking.

I'm going to soak in the bath for a couple of hours.

The water soaked into my shoes and gave me wet feet.

Word Forms

• soaks
• soaking
• soaked

Synonyms for soak

Depending on context, synonyms include fleece, alcoholic, souse, suck-pint, alco, alkie.

Antonyms for soak

Common opposites include undercharge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include soakage, sop, imbue, dowse, douse, saturate.

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