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Soak

//soʊk// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    An immersion in water etc.

    "After the strenuous climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath."

  2. 2
    washing something by allowing it to soak wordnet
  3. 3
    A drunkard. British, slang
  4. 4
    the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) wordnet
  5. 5
    A carouse; a drinking session. slang
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  1. 6
    A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain. Australia

    "I set off early to walk along the Melbourne Road where, one of the punters had told me, there was a soak with plenty of frogs in it."

Verb
  1. 1
    To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it. intransitive

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

  2. 2
    (slang, boxing) To hit or strike. transitive

    "Wasn't Mr. Sipperley pretty shirty when he came to and found that you had been soaking him with putters?"

  3. 3
    cover with liquid; pour liquid onto wordnet
  4. 4
    To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation. transitive

    "Soak the beans overnight before cooking."

  5. 5
    heat a metal prior to working it wordnet
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  1. 6
    To penetrate or permeate by saturation. intransitive

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

  2. 7
    fill, soak, or imbue totally wordnet
  3. 8
    To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up) transitive

    "A sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture."

  4. 9
    become drunk or drink excessively wordnet
  5. 10
    To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money. figuratively, transitive

    "It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot. […] Well, they got him in the same kind of jam, and soaked him to the tune of three hundred and eighty-six thousand."

  6. 11
    make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) wordnet
  7. 12
    To drink intemperately or gluttonously. dated, slang
  8. 13
    beat severely wordnet
  9. 14
    To heat (a metal) before shaping it. transitive
  10. 15
    submerge in a liquid wordnet
  11. 16
    To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time. transitive

    "We should soak the kiln at cone 9 for half an hour."

  12. 17
    rip off; ask an unreasonable price wordnet
  13. 18
    To absorb; to drain. figuratively, transitive

    "That they will want a certaine sucking and soaking"

  14. 19
    leave as a guarantee in return for money wordnet
  15. 20
    To engage in penetrative sex without hip thrusting. Mormonism, slang

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English soken, from Old English socian (“to soak, steep”, literally “to cause to suck (up)”), from Proto-Germanic *sukōną (“to soak”), causative of Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (“to suck”). Cognate with Middle Dutch soken (“to cause to suck”). More at suck.

Etymology 2

From Middle English soken, from Old English socian (“to soak, steep”, literally “to cause to suck (up)”), from Proto-Germanic *sukōną (“to soak”), causative of Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (“to suck”). Cognate with Middle Dutch soken (“to cause to suck”). More at suck.

Etymology 3

From Middle English soken, from Old English socian (“to soak, steep”, literally “to cause to suck (up)”), from Proto-Germanic *sukōną (“to soak”), causative of Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (“to suck”). Cognate with Middle Dutch soken (“to cause to suck”). More at suck.

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