Search results for 'soak':

soak verb (soaked, soaking) 1 tr & intr to stand or leave to stand in a liquid for some time. 2 to make someone or something thoroughly wet; to drench or saturate. 3 (also soak in or through something or soak through) to penetrate or pass through • The rain soaked through my coat • The spilt milk quickly soaked in. 4 colloq to charge or tax heavily. 5 intrans, colloq to drink especially alcohol to excess. noun 1 an act of soaking. 2 a drenching. 3 colloq a long period of lying in a bath. 4 colloq someone who habitually drinks a lot of alcohol. 5 a marshy location. soakage noun liquid that has percolated. soaker noun. soaking noun. soakingly adverb. soak up the sun to sunbathe.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon socian.