soak

Значение (English)

Verb

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.

Noun

1. An immersion in water etc.
2. (slang) A drunkard.
3. (slang) A carouse; a drinking session.
4. A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.

Synonyms

dip

drench

steep

wet

saturate

immerse

moisten

imbue

put in water

souse

macerate

impregnate

douse

soaking

sop

water

🚰

dunk

dowse

drip

inebriate

infuse

sink

soften

hit it up

dampen

dip in

sprinkle

plunge

imbrue

fleece

ret

rob

soakage

surcharge

drown

hock

overcharge

waterhole

pawn

well

hook

🪝

dye

include

flood

foam

instruct

intoxicate

irrigate

soak up

drink

🥤

stain

froth

submerge

suckle

dipping

wash

🧽

be soaked

gazump

percolate

make wet

make one understand

pluck

plume

damp

make swell

sog

seep through

seethe

slog

smudge

snooker

sot

steel

steeping

suds

swell

swellings

swill

temper

tippler

toughen

vesicle

wallop

waterlogging

become wet

dip into

get wet

soak in

wet through

insuccation

waterlog

crack

immerse in

cause to melt

be immersed in water

be soggy

wet thoroughly

embrue

soften by soaking

absorb

impregnation pickling

alveolus

barfly

bath

🛀

bathe

beat

bedrench

blister

booze

bubble

bubbles

🫧

carouse

cleanse

colour

complete

con

cook

🧑‍🍳

cracking

deluge

downpour

drain

drinker

drunkard

duck

🦆

enter

fertilize

fill up

fob

fox

🦊

fuddle

get rid of

gradual

harden

heat up

hoodwink

humbug

humidify

hypothecate

imbibe

immersion

infiltration

ingrain

inundate

keep

loosen

maceration

marinate

melt

moist

moisturise

muddy

ooze

penetrate

penetration

permeate

pickle

poach

punish

quaff

quench

rain cats and dogs

reverberate

riot

screw

season

seep

Произносится как (IPA)

/səʊk/

Этимология (English)

Inherited from среднеанглийский: soken

Inherited from староанглийский: socian

Cognate with средненидерландский: soken

In summary

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.