soak
IPA: sˈoʊk
noun
- An immersion in water etc.
- (slang, Britain) A drunkard.
- (slang) A carouse; a drinking session.
- (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
verb
- (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
- (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
- (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
- (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
- (slang, figurative, transitive) To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.
- (slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
- (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
- (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
- (figurative, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
- (slang, chiefly Mormonism) To engage in penetrative sex without hip thrusting.
- (transitive) (slang, boxing) To hit or strike.
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Examples of "soak" in Sentences
- The rain soaked the paper.
- The towel soaks in the water.
- The man was soaked in inebriety.
- Later, the team soaks in the sauna.
- They walk in and the place is soaked.
- The oil should soak into the leather.
- A torrential rain soaked the festival.
- The celery's juices will soak the rice.
- He is soaking wet, confused and disheveled.
- The sweetness is due to the sugar syrup they are soaked in.
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