soak
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English soken, from Old English socian (“to soak, steep”, literally “to cause to suck (up)”), from Proto-Germanic *sukōną (“to soak”), causative of Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (“to suck”). Cognate with Middle Dutch soken (“to cause to suck”). More at suck.
Inflected forms:
form: soaks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: soaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: soaked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: soaked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: soaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I'm going to soak in the bath for a couple of hours.
Their land shall be soaked with blood.
gloss: To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Soak the beans overnight before cooking.
gloss: To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The water soaked into my shoes and gave me wet feet.
The rivulet beneath […]soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow.
gloss: To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
I soaked up all the knowledge I could at university.
The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.
gloss: To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot. […] Well, they got him in the same kind of jam, and soaked him to the tune of three hundred and eighty-six thousand.
Sure, if we own an aerospace contracting company, a five-thousand-acre sugar-beet farm, or a savings and loan with the president's son on the board of directors, we can soak Uncle Sucker for millions.
I think you’re totally right that there is a big constituency, especially now that the party has been transformed, of Republican- and populist-leaning Republican voters who would be fine with some soaking the rich in the context of a bigger budget deal. […] Just maintaining the changes to the state and local tax deduction that was, I think, one of the genuinely populist victories of the first Trump term. And I should say, it soaked me, it soaked the upper middle class in blue states.
gloss: To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
pos: verb
tags: dated
slang
gloss: To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We should soak the kiln at cone 9 for half an hour.
gloss: To absorb; to drain.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: That they will want a certaine sucking and soaking
gloss: To engage in penetrative sex without hip thrusting.
pos: verb
tags: Mormonism
slang
gloss: An immersion in water etc.
pos: noun
examples: After the strenuous climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath.
wildlife tourism has turned Knepp into a successful business that employs more people than it did when it was a farm. Springtime overnighters snuggling down in a luxury treehouse after a soak in the open-air, wood-fired Swedish Hikki bathtub may hear nightingales serenading their consorts
gloss: A drunkard.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
gloss: A carouse; a drinking session.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: I set off early to walk along the Melbourne Road where, one of the punters had told me, there was a soak with plenty of frogs in it.
Molly and Daisy finished their breakfast and decided to take all their dirty clothes and wash them in the soak further down the river.
Derived words: asoak
go soak your head
oversoak
presoak
resoak
soakable
soakage
soak away
soakaway
soaker
soak in
soak the runner
soak up
soaky
water-soak
soak test
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