Soak

Definition: Soak

Soak

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".

2. Washing something by allowing it to soak.

Verb

1. Submerge in a liquid; "I soaked in the hot tub for an hour".

2. Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.

3. Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face".

4. Give as a guarantee.

5. Beat severely; slang.

6. Make drunk (with alcoholic drinks).

7. Become drunk; drink excessively.

8. Fill, soak, or imbue totally; "saturate the bandage with disinfectant".

9. Heat a metal prior to working it.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "soak" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Soak

Drunkenness

Verb: get drunk, be drunk; Adjective: see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you.

Dryness

Render dry. Adjective: dry; dry up, soak up; sponge, swab, wipe; drain.

Insertion

Imbed; immerse, immerge, merge; bathe, soak; (water); dip, plunge.

Moisture

Verb: moisten, wet; humect, humectate; sponge, damp, bedew; imbue, imbrue, infiltrate, saturate; soak, drench. (water).

Water

Add water, water, wet; moisten; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle.

Crosswords: Soak

Soak it in cold water. (Carpool; writing credit: Don Rhymer)

See, the genius of it is you soak it in ice water for an hour so it holds its shape. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Every night I watch the sunset and soak up every last ray of its warmth, and send it from my heart to yours. (Pearl Harbor; writing credit: Randall Wallace)

Why, do you want to soak your feet? (Les Girls; writing credit: Vera Caspary; John Patrick)

I'm gonna soak up the sun (Soak Up the Sun; performing artist: SHERYL CROW)

I wanna see you dance 'til your body's soak 'n wet (Blow Your Mind; performing artist: Baha Men)

I rush home to bed I soak my head (Pictures Of Matchstick Men; performing artist: The Status Quo)

Soak the Old (1940)

The Good Old Soak (1937)

Soak the Rich (1936)

The Old Soak (1926)

Golden Soak (1979)

SOAK UP THE SUN (performing artist: SHERYL CROW)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Golden Soak (reference)

• Math Sponges Enriching Ways to Soak Up Spare Moments (reference)

• Soak it All In : The Secrets to Advertising Success [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Spongebob Squarepants: Soak It Up! (reference)

• The Golden Soak (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Soak (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A firefighter uses a toy hose, a backpack with water to soak an area. Credit: USDA.

You'd better run next door and tell them to soak that package in water ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

As a result, not enough protein is left in the blood to soak up the water. (references)

These medications act like sponges to soak up, or bind, phosphorus while it is in the stomach. (references)

Soak combs and brushes for 1 hour in rubbing alcohol, Lysol*, or wash with soap and hot (130o F) water. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

Rural industrial development would spur growth and soak up the excess labor. (references)

Trade

Honduras

Monetary authorities continued measures to soak up excess liquidity in the financial system in order to maintain price stability and accumulate international reserves. (references)

Travel

Indonesia

At home, wash and soak all local fruit and vegetables in Clorox-treated, soapy water. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "soak": resin soak ♦ soak in ♦ soak off ♦ soak out ♦ soak through ♦ soak up ♦ water soak. Additional references.

Beginning with "soak": soak-away, soak-spray.

Ending with "soak": no-need-to-soak, no-soak, pre-soak, Water-soak.

Afrikaans

week (soften up). (various references)

Albanian

zhytem (dip, dive, go under, merge, pore, sink, wallow), thith (absorb, draw, draw down, drink, imbibe, immerse, inhale, nipple, pull at, snuff, soak up, sop, suck, suck in, take up), rrumbullosem, rrjep (bark, bleed, deplume, flay, Peel, pick), qullem (get wet through), qull (dabby, drench, get wet, gruel, mash, porridge, saturate, soppy, wet), njom (baste, dabble, dew, douse, Dunk, macerate, moisten, Rait, ret, saturate, souse, steepen, wet), ngjyej (color, colour, Dunk, dye, imbue, make smb. up, pepper, plaster), lag (dabble, damp, dampen, douse, drench, get wet, moisten, souse, wash, wet), kredh (plunge), hyj (come, come in, enter, get in, go, go in, penetrate, perform, shrink, turn in), depërtoj (break through, elbow, filter, infiltrate, needle, penetrate, perforate, permeate, seep, thread, worm), bëhem xurxull (take a drop too much). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقع (assuage, drench, impregnate, impregnation, infuse, mashing, saturate, saturation, slake, souse, steep, temper, wash, water), ‏نظف بالنقع, ‏تخلل (infiltrate, interpose, intervene, intervention, pervade, transfuse), ‏تشرب أو يمتص, ‏عاقب بقسوة, ‏الماء المنقوع فيه, ‏السكير (alcoholic, bibber, drunkard, sot, souse, toper), ‏أسرف في الشراب (dissipate, fuddle, guzzle, swill), ‏أثقل (burden, charge, clog, cumber, encumber, lie, overburden, surcharge, weigh down), ‏أرهق (beat, break, exhaust, fatigue, gruel, harass, labor, labour, lie, load, overload, overstrain, pump, run down, saddle, squeeze, tax, try, tucker, weary, weigh, weigh down, weight), ‏أشبع (appease, assuage, charge, drench, feed, flood, full, gratify, please, requite, sate, satiate, saturate, slake, steep), ‏بلل كليا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

мокря (madefy, steep, water, wet), пияница (alcoholic, bacchanal, bibber, boozer, boozy, dram-drinker, drinker, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, soaker, sot, souse, sponge, stew, tippler, toper, winebag, winebibber, wino), пиянствувам (bib, boose, booze, bouse, drink, drinking, spree, tope), плуя (decay, roll, rot, run), попивам (absorb, imbibe), поглъщам (absorb, adsorb, devour, engorge, engross, engulf, imbibe, ingulf, ingurgitate, pouch, prepossess, soak up, suck, suck down, suck in, suck up, swallow, swamp, take down, take in, take over, whelm), пропивам (infiltrate, leaven, penetrate, tincture), прониквам (come through, penetrate, percolate, perforate, pervade, seep, sift, strike, sweep in, work in), пиене (booze, drink, drinking, guzzle, potation, something to drink, swill), абсорбирам (absorb, suck, suck in), скубя (flay, fleece, pluck, pluck off, pluck up, pull, rook), напоявам (drench, imbue, impregnate, irrigate, penetrate, saturate, water), накисвам (drench, macerate, saturate, sodden, souse, steep), накисване (infusion, maceration, soaking, souse, steep, steeping), натопявам, одирам (abrade, excoriate, flay, flench, flense, raw, skin, tear off), гуляй (bat, bend, bender, binge, blowout, bout, bum, carouse, drinking bout, feed, jamboree, junket, racket, randan, rant, rattle, razzle, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, rouse, spree, tear, wassail), кисна (infuse, ret), течност в която се накисва нещо, просмуквам (infiltrate). (various references)

Chinese 

泡 (puffed, swollen, to steep), 漬 (saturate), 浸透 , 浸泡 (retted, Retting, soaked, soaking, Steeped, Steeping), 浸 (immerse, steep), 寖 (immerse). (various references)

Czech

sání (suck, suction), vyprázdnit (become empty, clean out, deplete, empty, evacuate, exhaust), vsáknutí, promoèení, piják (blotter, drunk, sot), ochmelka (boozer), natáhnout (extend, straighten, strain, stretch, wind), namoèit (dabble, dip, imbrue, steep, water, wet), máèet (dabble, macerate). (various references)

Danish

holde samme temperatur, gennembrænde. (various references)

Dutch

weken (weeks), weekmaken (soften up), in de week zetten. (various references)

Esperanto

trempi (dip, immerse), trasorbigi. (various references)

Faeroese

dyppa (dip, immerse), drepa (butcher, dip, immerse, kill, liquidate, slaughter, slay). (various references)

Farsi 

غوطه وری , غوطه دادن (Dip, Dunk, Immerse), غوطه (Duck, Plunge), غسل (Ablution, Dip, Wash), عمل خیساندن , خیساندن (Drench, Imbibe, Poach, Sop, Steep), خیس خوری , خیس خوردن , رسوخ کردن (Perforate, Pierce), دراب فروبردن , بوسیله مایع اشباع شدن . (various references)

Finnish

olla liossa, liottaa, liota (get soaked), imeytyä (be absorbed, penetrate). (various references)

French

tremper (sodden, sop). (various references)

German

durchnässen (drench, saturate, seep through, sodden, to soak, to sodden). (various references)

Greek 

μουσκεύω (drench, macerate, ret, saturate, steep, wet), εμποτίζω (imbue, impregnate, ingrain). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשרות (drench, immerse, saturate, sop, souse, steep), ל�"שרות (dip, imbue, inspire, ret, steep), ל�"רטיב ל�'מרי (drench, saturate), ל�"ספי�' (impregnate, sop, steep). (various references)

Hungarian

áztatás (bathing, dipping, steep). (various references)

Indonesian

rendam (submerge), merendam (steep, submerge), mengacapi (imundate), membasahkuyupi (damp, fresh, remunerative). (various references)

Italian

ammollare (steep, wet). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

浸す (to dip, to drench, to soak). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しみでる (to exude, to ooze, to percolate, to soak through), しみ�"む (to permeate, to soak into), しみる (to be frozen over, to be infected, to be steeped, to congeal, to freeze, to penetrate, to permeate, to pierce, to soak in), しみとおる (to be deeply impressed, to be impressed, to soak through), ひたす (to dip, to drench, to soak), ふくます (to include, to instruct, to make one hold something in the mouth, to make one understand, to saturate, to soak, to suckle), ふくませる (to include, to instruct, to make one hold something in the mouth, to make one understand, to saturate, to soak, to suckle), ふろのゆにひたる (to sink into a hot bath, to soak in a bathtub), ぬの�'せ�"りょうにひたす (to soak cloth in a dye), ぬらす (to dip, to soak, to wet), つける (to add, to affix, to append, to apply, to appraise, to attach, to bring alongside, to dip in, to establish, to fasten, to follow, to furnish, to give, to glue, to join, to keep, to keep a diary, to light up, to load, to make an entry, to moisten, to pickle, to place, to put, to put on, to set, to sew on, to shadow, to soak, to stick, to switch on, to turn on, to wear), あせとり (undergarment designed to soak up sweat). (various references)

Korean 

� �시십시�". (various references)

Manx

thummey (dip, dive, douse, duck; diving, ducking, immerse, immersion, lunge, pitch, plunge, sop, steep, steeping, submerge, submersion), soo (absorption, blot, blot as paper, exhaust, exhaustion, extract, extraction; goodness of food; berry, extraction; goodness; berry, imbibe, jam, preserve, sap, sip; blotting, soak up, soaking, suck, sucking, suction, tipple, tippling), fliughey trooid as trooid, fliughey (drench, moisten, rainfall, slake, souse, wet), fanney (bite, bite of wind, dress down, excoriation, flay, fleece, fly-fishing, scalp, skin, skinning, slash, slashing, slating, tirade), cur er boggyr. (various references)

Pig Latin

oaksay

Portuguese

saturar (charge, cloy, glut, impregnate, pall, sate, satiate, saturate), socar (box, buffet, crush, cuff, fist, pound, sock, tamp, thump), imergir (drown, immerse, lade, merge, plunge, submerge), deixar no fogo, embeber (absorb, dunk, imbibe, imbrue, imbue, impregnate, steep), embeber-se, embriagar-se (boose, booze), encharcar (flood, imbrue, souse), encharcar-se (welter), absorver (absorb, absorbing, adsorb, assimilate, drink, engorge, engross, imbibe, impregnate, occlude, occupy, sip, soak up, swallow), esmurrar (bang, clout, paste, pound, punch, thump), impregnar de líquido, infiltrar (infiltrate), molhar (bathe, dampen, dip, irrigate, liquor, moisten, souse, steep, wash, water), molharcomlíquido (immerse), pôr de molho, ensopar (drown, dunk, imbrue, imbue, sop). (various references)

Romanian

sãtura (cloy, cram, fill, gorge, sate, satiate, suffice), suge vârtos, suge ca un burete, stoarce (crush, drain, exhaust, express, extort, extort from, fleece, force, milk, pinch, press, screw, squeeze, swindle, twist, wring), scufunda (dip, dive, drown, engulf, founder, run down, send to the bottom, sink, submerge, subside, swamp, whelm), înmuia (dabble, dip, drench, immerse, mellow, melt, poach, relent, ret, soften, steep, unbend), absorbi (absorb, aspirate, captivate, engage, engross, fascinate, imbibe, inhale, sponge, suck), afunda (deepen, depress, dip, disappear, dissolve, dive, drench, duck, immerse, sink, submerge), fi ud, jupui (abrade, bark, excoriate, flay, fleece, gall, graze, Harry, Peel, pill, raw, rip off, Rob, scratch, skin, strip, wound), îmbiba (imbue, penetrate, steep), muia (bathe, dip, douse, liquefy, ret, sop, steep, thaw, wet), umezi (dabble, damp, humidify, moisten, wet), trage la mãsea (indulge), uda (bedew, damp, dip, douse, drench, irrigate, moisten, souse, sparge, splash, spray, sprinkle, squirt, stain, steep, wash, water, wet), macera (macerate). (various references)

Russian 

размочить, вымочить (drench), вымачивать (macerate), выдерживать сталь, отмокать, отмачивать, намочить, намачивать (sopped, sops), замачивать (steeps), промочить (drench, wet out, wet throughly), промачивать, пропитывать (impregnate, pervade, preimpregnate, preimpregnate with, saturate). (various references)

Scottish

drùidh (affect, influence, ooze through, penetrate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaceniti (overbid, overcharge, overprice), upiti (absorb, imbibe, soak up, sop), previše naplatiti, potopiti (dip, immerse, sink, sluice, submerge, submerse), obliti (overspread, suffuse), natopiti (drench, imbrue, saturate, steep, wash, wet), namočiti (dunk, leach), močiti (rait, ret). (various references)

Spanish

remojarse, remojar (damp, dampen, Dunk, macerate, steep), mantener una temperatura en una zona determinada de un horno, empaparse (gormandize, imbibe), empapar (drench, imbue, impregnate, permeate, pervade, saturate, soak up, souse, steep), desplumar (displume, pick, pluck), deluvio, borrachín (drunkard, sot, winebibber), beber mucho (drink too much). (various references)

Swedish

blöta upp (macerate). (various references)

Thai

จุ่ม (dip, dip in, dunk in, immerse). (various references)

Turkish

suya sokmak (douse, dowse), sarhoş olmak (be drunk, be intoxicated, be loaded, be the worse for drink, be up the pole, get drunk, get liquored up, have a jag on, see double), sağanak (down pour, downpour, drench, flurry, hail, heavy shower, rainfall, shower, soaker, spate, spatter, squall, torrent, waterspout), sırılsıklam olmak (be soaking wet, get a good sousing), demlemek (brew, draw, infuse, steep), ıslanmak (dampen, draggle, get wet), ıslatma (damping, drench, soakage, steep, wetting), ıslatmak (bedrabble, bedraggle, damp, dampen, douse, dowse, drench, imbrue, moisten, moisturize, saturate, sop, souse, sprinkle, steep, swim, water, wet), çekme (allure, allurement, bearing, draft, draught, draw, drawing, extraction, haul, haulage, hitch, hoist, pluck, pull, pull off, pull out, shrinkage, shrinking, throwback, towage, towaway, towing, traction, withdrawal), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw), çok içmek (bib, drink a lot, drink deeply, drink heavily, liquor up, lush, swill, tope), alkol krizi, ıslanma (ducking, getting wet, soakage, steep), banmak (dip, Dunk), yumruk atmak (box, deal a blow at smb., deal smb. a blow, dot smb. one, fist, hit, hit out, paste, paste smb. one, plug, punch, thump), emme (absorption, admission, adsorption, aspiration, sorption, suck, sucking, suction, vacuum), emmek (absorb, adsorb, drink in, occlude, siphon off, soak in, sop up, suck, suck in, suck up, syphon off), içkici (bibber, bibulous, boozer, boozy, drinker, drunkard, drunken, habitual drinker, habitual drunkard, heavy drinker, lush, sponge, tippler, toper, wino), kazıklamak (bunco, cheat, chisel, clip, do smb. brown, fleece, fob, fob smb. off, gouge, have smb. on, jew, Nick, overcharge, put it on, put it over on, rook, rush, sell, skin, sting, stuff smb., take for a ride), ayyaş (alcoholic, bacchanal, bacchant, bibber, bibulous, boozy, dipsomaniac, dissipated, drinker, drunk, drunkard, habitual drunkard, intemperate, lush, rounder, sot, sottish, souse, sponge, toper, wino). (various references)

Turkmen 

suwjarmak (sentimentalize over), ezmek (moisten, wet), зьmьrmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

усмоктуватися, чан для замочування, всмоктування, мочити (rait, ret, sozzle, water, wet), замочувати (steep), замочування (soaking, steep), просочуватися (filter, funnel, infiltrate, leak, leak in, leak out, ooze, percolate, seep, soak through, transpire), промочування. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự thấm nước (wetting), sự ngâm (maceration). (various references)

Welsh

mwydo (moisten, steep). (various references)

lava, lavabam, lavabant, lavabis, lavabit, lavabitis, lavabitur, lavabo, lavabunt, lavamini, lavandos, lavandum, lavant, lavantem, lavare, lavarent, lavaret, lavaretur, lavas, lavate, lavatione, lavent, laventque, laver, laverat, laverint, laveris, laverit, lavero, laverunt, laveruntque, lavet, lavetur, lavi, lavissent, lavisset, lavisti, lavit, lota, lotae, lotaque, lotham, lotis, lotisque, lotos, lotus. (various references)

beswillan. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "soak": soakage, soakages, soaked, soaker, soakers, soaking, soaks. (additional references)

Words ending with "soak": oversoak, presoak, resoak. (additional references)

Words containing "soak": oversoaked, oversoaking, oversoaks, presoaked, presoaking, presoaks, resoaked, resoaking, resoaks, unsoaked. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Soak" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doak, goak, Ishoka, Isosaki, joak, osaak, osai, osaki, oshac, Osk, osyak, Sak, Saka, Sakau, sako, saok, seka, Sevak, shoak, Shobaki, Shoka, Siac, Siaka, sifaka, sika, siok, Sisak, Sjak, slak, smaak, smak, smoak, snak, snoak, snoek, soa, soab, soaf, soan, soaq, soax, soaz, soec, soiv, sok, solk, sonk, sooa, sook, sork, sotk, soui, souq, soxa, soza, spoak, stak, suka, swak, swook, syak, toak, woak, zak, zeak, zoak, zok. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: koas, oaks, okas.

-1 letter: ask, kas, koa, kos, oak, oka, ska.

-2 letters: as, ka, os, so.

+1 letter: amoks, askoi, askos, kaons, kayos, koans, kolas, makos, okays, okras, shako, skoal, soaks.

+2 letters: arkose, cloaks, croaks, hookas, kabobs, kapoks, karoos, kaross, kayoes, kazoos, koalas, koppas, korats, oakums, okapis, outask, polkas, pookas, resoak, shacko, shakos, skatol, skoals, soaked, soaker, taroks, tokays, troaks, vodkas, wackos, yapoks.

+3 letters: aikidos, anoraks, arkoses, arkosic, boskage, cassock, comakes, cossack, daikons, dakoits, forsake, goshawk, hassock, hookahs, hopsack, judokas, kakapos, kalongs, kaolins, karroos, kations, klaxons, kolbasi, korunas, mikados, oakmoss, odalisk, oomiaks, ostmark, outasks, outtask, padouks, presoak, quokkas, resoaks, ryokans, seacock, shackos, shakoes, sjambok, skatole, skatols, skoaled, soakage, soakers, soaking, sockman, sokeman, tombaks, troikas, wackoes, whackos, yapocks.

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