[sohk] 
| 1. | to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid. |
| 2. | to pass, as a liquid, through pores, holes, or the like: The rain soaked through the tear in the umbrella. |
| 3. | to be thoroughly wet. |
| 4. | to penetrate or become known to the mind or feelings (fol. by in): The lesson didn't soak in. |
| 5. | Informal. to drink immoderately, esp. alcoholic beverages: They were soaking at the bar. |
| 6. | to place or keep in liquid in order to saturate thoroughly; steep. |
| 7. | to wet thoroughly; saturate or drench. |
| 8. | to permeate thoroughly, as liquid or moisture does. |
| 9. | Metallurgy. to heat (a piece) for reworking. |
| 10. | Informal. to intoxicate (oneself) by drinking an excess of liquor. |
| 11. | Slang. to beat hard; punish severely: I was soaked for that mistake. |
| 12. | to extract or remove by or as by soaking (often fol. by out): to soak a stain out of a napkin. |
| 13. | Slang. to overcharge: He was soaked by the waiter. |
| 14. | the act or state of soaking or the state of being soaked. |
| 15. | the liquid in which anything is soaked. |
| 16. | Slang. a heavy drinker. |
| 17. | Australian. 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. |
| 18. | soak up,
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