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v.   soaked, soak·ing, soaks

v.   tr.

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 drink (alcoholic liquor), especially to excess.
4. To make (a person) drunk.
To absorb (liquid, for example) through or as if through pores or interstices.
To remove (a stain, for example) by continued immersion: soaked out the grease spots.
Informal To take in or accept mentally, especially eagerly and easily: soaked up the gossip.
Informal
1. To drink (alcoholic liquor), especially to excess.
2. To make (a person) drunk.
Slang To overcharge (a person).

v. intr.

To be immersed until thoroughly saturated.
To penetrate or permeate; seep: The speaker paused to let her words soak in.
Slang To drink to excess.

1. The act or process of soaking.
2. The condition of being soaked.
Liquid in which something may be soaked.
Slang A drunkard.

[Middle English soken, from Old English socian; see seuə-² in Indo-European roots.]

soak'er n.

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soaking
adverb
1.	extremely wet; "dripping wet"; "soaking wet"
noun
1.	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" [syn: soak]
2.	the act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a good drenching" [syn: drenching]
3.	washing something by allowing it to soak [syn: soak]

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
ˈsoaking adjective

very wet
Example: She took off her soaking garments.

Arabic:	رَطْب جِدا، مُبَلَّل
Chinese (Simplified):	湿透的
Chinese (Traditional):	濕透的
Czech:	promočený
Danish:	drivende våd
Dutch:	kletsnat
Estonian:	tilkuv, läbimärg
Finnish:	likomärkä
French:	trempé
German:	durchnäßt
Greek:	μουσκεμένος, υγρός
Hungarian:	csuromvizes(en)
Icelandic:	gegnblautur
Indonesian:	basah
Italian:	zuppo

Japanese:	ずぶぬれの
Korean:	흠뻑 젖은
Latvian:	piemircis; slapjš; pilošs
Lithuanian:	permirkęs
Norwegian:	gjennombløt, drivende våt
Polish:	ociekający
Portuguese (Brazil):	encharcado
Portuguese (Portugal):	encharcado
Romanian:	muiat
Russian:	промокший
Slovak:	premočený
Slovenian:	premočen
Spanish:	empapado
Swedish:	genomvåt, -blöt
Turkish:	sırılsıklam

See also: -soaked, soak, soak up, soaked, soaking wet

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Soaking

Soak\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Soaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Soaking.] [OE. soken, AS. socian to sioak, steep, fr. s?can, s?gan, to suck. See Suck.]

1. 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. To drench; to wet thoroughly.

Their land shall be soaked with blood. --Isa. xxiv. 7.

3. To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.

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

The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow. --Sir W. Scott.

5. Fig.: To absorb; to drain. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton.

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