soak

Meaning

1. To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
2. To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
3. To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
4. To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
5. (slang) To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.
6. (slang) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
7. To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
8. To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
9. To absorb; to drain.
10. (slang) To engage in penetrative sex without hip thrusting.

dip

put in water

dip in

be soaked

make wet

make one understand

make swell

seep through

tippler

become wet

insuccation

immerse in

cause to melt

be immersed in water

be soggy

wet thoroughly

embrue

soften by soaking

absorb

impregnation pickling

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/səʊk/

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.

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