Definitions of soak [ʊk]

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Definition of 'soak'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) soak
to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.

2.  soak
to pass, as a liquid, through pores, holes, or the like:
Rain soaked through the roof.

3.  soak
to be thoroughly wet.

4.  soak
to penetrate or become known to the mind or feelings (fol. by in).

5. (v.t.) soak
to place or keep in liquid in order to saturate.

6.  soak
to wet thoroughly; saturate or drench.

7.  soak
to permeate thoroughly, as liquid or moisture does.

8.  soak
to extract or remove by or as if by soaking (often fol. by out):
to soak a stain out of a napkin.

9.  soak
Slang. to overcharge.

10. (n.) soak
the act or state of soaking or the state of being soaked.

11.  soak
the liquid in which anything is soaked.

12.  soak
Slang. a heavy drinker.

Etymology: (bef. 1000; ME soken, OE sōcian)

Definition of 'soak'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) soak, soakage, soaking
the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
"a good soak put life back in the wagon"

2. (verb) soak, soaking
washing something by allowing it to soak

3. (verb) soak
submerge in a liquid
"I soaked in the hot tub for an hour"

4. (verb) overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook
rip off; ask an unreasonable price

5. (verb) drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse
cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
"souse water on his hot face"

6. (verb) pawn, soak, hock
leave as a guarantee in return for money
"pawn your grandfather's gold watch"

7. (verb) soak
beat severely

8. (verb) intoxicate, soak, inebriate
make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)

9. (verb) souse, soak, inebriate, hit it up
become drunk or drink excessively

10. (verb) soak, imbue
fill, soak, or imbue totally
"soak the bandage with disinfectant"

11. (verb) soak
heat a metal prior to working it

Definition of 'soak'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) soak
to put in liquid to make clean or soft
The stain should come out if you soak it overnight.; Soak the dried beans for three hours before cooking.

2. soak
to make extremely wet; = drench
The heavy rain soaked the ground.

Definition of 'soak'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) soak
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

2. (verb) soak
to drench; to wet thoroughly

3. (verb) soak
to draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture

4. (verb) soak
to make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through

5. (verb) soak
fig.: To absorb; to drain

6. (verb) soak
to lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak

7. (verb) soak
to enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter

8. (verb) soak
to drink intemperately or gluttonously

Translation of 'soak'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to (let) stand in a liquid She soaked the clothes overnight in soapy water.
Afrikaans: week	Arabic: يَنْقَع في الماء	Bulgarian: (на)кисна
Brazilian: pôr de molho	Czech: namočit	German: einweichen
Danish: lægge i blød	Greek: μουλιάζω	Spanish: remojar(se)
Estonian: leotama, ligunema	Farsi: خيساندن	Finnish: liottaa
French: faire tremper	Hebrew: לְהַשרוֹת	Hindi: तर-बतर कर देना
Croatian: smočiti, namočiti	Hungarian: (be)áztat; ázik	Indonesian: merendam
Icelandic: leggja/liggjaí bleyti	Italian: ammollare, mettere a moll	Japanese: 浸す
Korean: 담그다	Lithuanian: mirkyti,įmerkti	Latvian: iemērkt; mērcēt
Malay: merendam	Dutch: weken	Norwegian: legge i bløt
Polish: namaczać, moknąć	Persian: خيساندن	Pashto: خيشتول، لندول (لكه وريجې
Portuguese: pôr de molho	Romanian: aînmuia	Russian: замачивать
Slovak: namočiť	Slovenian: namočiti	Serbian: natopiti
Swedish: blöta, lägga i blöt	Thai: แช่	Turkish: ıslatmak
Taiwanese: 浸泡	Ukrainian: замочувати; занурювати в	Urdu: پانی میں تر بتر ہونے دینا
Vietnamese: ngâm nhúng	Chinese: 浸泡
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