Definition of "soak"

soak

/səʊk/

verb
third-person singular simple present soaks, present participle soaking, simple past and past participle soaked
1. (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
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  Their land shall be soaked with blood.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Isaiah 24:7
2. (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
3. (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
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  The rivulet beneath […] soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow.
  1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […]
4. (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
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  The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.
  1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings
5. (slang, figurative, transitive) To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.
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  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.
  1928, Upton Sinclair, Boston
  Sure, if we own an aerospace contracting company, a five-thousand-acre sugar-beet farm, or a savings and loan with the president's son on the board of directors, we can soak Uncle Sucker for millions.
  2015, P. J. O'Rourke, Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader
6. (slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
7. (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
8. (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
9. (figurative, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
  Quotations
  That they will want a certaine sucking and soaking
  1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill
10. (slang, chiefly Mormonism) To engage in penetrative sex without hip thrusting.
verb
third-person singular simple present soaks, present participle soaking, simple past and past participle soaked
1. (transitive) (slang, boxing) To hit or strike.
  Quotations
  Wasn't Mr. Sipperley pretty shirty when he came to and found that you had been soaking him with putters?
  1926, [P.G. Wodehouse], The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy
noun
plural soaks
1. An immersion in water etc.
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  wildlife tourism has turned Knepp into a successful business that employs more people than it did when it was a farm. Springtime overnighters snuggling down in a luxury treehouse after a soak in the open-air, wood-fired Swedish Hikki bathtub may hear nightingales serenading their consorts
  2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian‎
2. (slang, Britain) A drunkard.
3. (slang) A carouse; a drinking session.
4. (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
  Quotations
  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.
  1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 38
  Molly and Daisy finished their breakfast and decided to take all their dirty clothes and wash them in the soak further down the river.
  1996, Doris Pinkington, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 170

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