The Meaning of soak

• (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.

Synonyms

soakage , soaking , soaking , overcharge , surcharge , gazump , fleece , plume , pluck , rob , hook , drench , douse , dowse , sop , souse , pawn , hock , intoxicate , inebriate , souse , inebriate , hit it up , imbue

Antonyms

undercharge

Homophones

soke

Rhymes

artichoke , awoke , backstroke , baroque , bloke , boak , boake , boeck , boeke , bouck , broke , choke , cloak , cloke , coke , countryfolk , croak , croke , doak , doke , droke , evoke , folk , goecke , goeke , gohlke , hoek , hoke , holyoke , invoke , joke , keystroke , knoke , koch , koke , kolk , larocque , laroque , misspoke , moacq , moak , moke , noack , oak , poke , polk , provoke , revoke , roanoke , roque , schmoke , schoeck , schroeck , scoke , sloke , slowpoke , smoak , smoke , snoke , spoke , stoke , stroke , szoke , townsfolk , windhoek , woke , wolk , wouk , yoak , yoke , yolk