Soak
[səʊk] or [sok]
Definition
(noun.) washing something by allowing it to soak.
(noun.) 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'.
(verb.) heat a metal prior to working it.
(verb.) fill, soak, or imbue totally; 'soak the bandage with disinfectant'.
(verb.) beat severely.
(verb.) submerge in a liquid; 'I soaked in the hot tub for an hour'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.
(v. t.) To drench; to wet thoroughly.
(v. t.) To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
(v. t.) To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through.
(v. t.) Fig.: To absorb; to drain.
(v. i.) To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.
(v. i.) To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.
(v. i.) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
Edited by Bonita
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Steep, macerate, imbrue, drench.
v. n. Steep, be soaked.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Wet, steep, drench, macerate, moisten, submerge
ANT:Dry, air, wring, exsiccate, aridify, bleach
Typist: Ludwig
Definition
v.t. to steep in a fluid: to wet thoroughly: to drench: to draw in by the pores.—v.i. to be steeped in a liquid: to enter into pores: to drink to excess to guzzle.—n. process or act of soaking: a hard drinker a carouse.—ns. Soak′age act of soaking: the amount soaked in; Soak′er a habitual drunkard.—p.adj. Soak′ing that wets thoroughly: drenching as rain.—adv. Soak′ingly.—adj. Soak′y steeped wet.
Typist: Margery
Examples
- Another way to make the composition is to soak over night in cold water best gelatine or glue 1 part, and the excess of water poured off. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Break up the glue and soak in the water for a few hours, then heat by water-bath until melted. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- When getting ready to smoke some pieces, the farmer would first soak them twenty-four hours in clear, cold water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Unscrupulous jobbers and dealers have been known to soak the whole beans in spirits, practically stealing all their flavor, and then by drying them place them on the market. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Soak the gelatine in half a pint of water for four hours. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Soak the clothes over night in water to which has been added a table-spoonful of the fluid for each gallon of water; also add a little in washing water. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- It is well they are not cows--it would soak in and ruin the milk. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Then they were out of sight around the corner of the draw and he was soaking wet with sweat and looking at nothing. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Sometimes these stains can be removed by soaking in milk, and where this is possible, it is the better method. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- She cannot sing, it is my belief: her voice is as cracked as thine, O thou beer-soaking Renowner! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He moved on, and I followed him, through the darkness and the small soaking rain. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Soaking into this filthy ground as you lie here, is your own shape. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Those that have lived there all their lives, are used to soaking in the stagnant waters. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Soaking in vats formerly occupied twelve or eighteen months, but under the new methods the time has been greatly reduced. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Oh, as far as cynicism goes, Andros might be a boulevardier soaked in absinthe. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- A joint of any size could be soaked; the only thing was to give it plenty of time. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- One early station in New York for arc lighting was an old soap-works whose well-soaked floors did not need much additional grease to render them choice fuel for the inevitable flames. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But this is how one historian, soaked with the fantastic political ideas of our times, is pleased to write of this evil expedition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All savage and primitive peoples of to-day, on the contrary, are soaked in tradition--the tradition of thousands of generations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had lain in a pile of straw in his sweat-soaked clothes and wound a blanket around him while he dried. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The common supply of rivers is from springs, which draw their origin from rain that has soaked into the earth. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- That which soaks into the ground is the most valuable because it remains on the earth longest and is the purest. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- When water falls upon a field, it soaks into the ground, or collects in puddles which slowly evaporate, or it runs off and drains into small streams or into rivers. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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