- to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
- to pass, as a liquid, through pores, holes, or the like: The rain soaked through the tear in the umbrella.
- to be thoroughly wet: Her shoes and socks were soaking and her feet were freezing.
- to penetrate or become known to the mind or feelings (followed by in): The lesson didn't soak in.
- to drink immoderately, especially alcoholic beverages: They were soaking at the bar.
- to place or keep in liquid in order to saturate thoroughly; steep.
- to wet thoroughly; saturate or drench.
- to permeate thoroughly, as liquid or moisture does.
- to heat (a piece) for reworking.
- to intoxicate (oneself) by drinking an excess of liquor.
- to beat hard; punish severely: I was soaked for that mistake.
- to extract or remove by or as by soaking (often followed by out): to soak a stain out of a napkin.
- to overcharge: He was soaked by the waiter.
- the act or state of soaking or the state of being soaked.
- the liquid in which anything is soaked.
- a habitual drinker of alcohol who is frequently intoxicated; a heavy drinker.
- any small area of land, as near a spring or at the foot of a hill, that becomes swamplike or holds water after a period of heavy rain.
- soak up,
- to absorb or take in or up by absorption: Blotting paper soaks up ink.
- to absorb with one's mind or senses; take in: to soak up information.
- to drink to excess: He can really soak up the booze.
- to make, become, or be thoroughly wet or saturated, esp by immersion in a liquid
- (of a liquid) to penetrate or permeate
- (of a permeable solid) to take in (a liquid) by absorption
- to remove by immersion in a liquid
- to heat (a metal) prior to working
- to drink excessively or make or become drunk
- to overcharge
- to put in pawn
- the act of immersing in a liquid or the period of immersion
- the liquid in which something may be soaked, esp a solution containing detergent
- another name for soakage (def. 3)
- a heavy rainfall
- a person who drinks to excess
