Soak

English Meaning

To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.

1. To make thoroughly wet or saturated by or as if by placing in liquid.
2. To immerse in liquid for a period of time.
3. To absorb (liquid, for example) through or as if through pores or interstices.
4. To remove (a stain, for example) by continued immersion: soaked out the grease spots.
5. Informal To take in or accept mentally, especially eagerly and easily: soaked up the gossip.
6. Informal To drink (alcoholic liquor), especially to excess.
7. Informal To make (a person) drunk.
8. Slang To overcharge (a person).
9. To be immersed until thoroughly saturated.
10. To penetrate or permeate; seep: The speaker paused to let her words soak in.
11. Slang To drink to excess.
12. The act or process of soaking.
13. The condition of being soaked.
14. Liquid in which something may be soaked.
15. Slang A drunkard.