soak
verb
[ səʊk ]
• make or allow (something) to become thoroughly wet by immersing it in liquid.
• "soak the beans overnight in water"
Similar:
immerse,
steep,
submerge,
submerse,
dip,
sink,
dunk,
bathe,
wet,
rinse,
douse,
marinate,
souse,
pickle,
ret,
• impose heavy charges or taxation on.
• "VAT would not soak the rich—it would soak the everyday guy struggling to stay afloat"
• drink heavily.
• "you keep soaking in taverns"
soak
noun
• an act of immersing someone or something in liquid for a period of time.
• "I'm looking forward to a long soak in the bath"
• a heavy drinker.
• "his daughter stayed up to put the old soak to bed"
• a hollow where rainwater collects; a waterhole.
Origin:
Old English socian ‘become saturated with a liquid by immersion’; related to sūcan ‘to suck’.
