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1. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
   - soak, soakage
    
2. The act of making something completely wet
   - drenching, souse, sousing
    
3. Washing something by allowing it to soak
   - soak

1. Extremely wet
   "soaking wet"
   - sopping, dripping

1. Submerge in a liquid
   "I soaked in the hot tub for an hour"
    
2. Rip off; ask an unreasonable price
   - overcharge, surcharge, gazump [Brit], fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook
    
3. Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
   - drench, douse, dowse, sop, souse
    
4. Leave as a guarantee in return for money
   - pawn, hock
    
5. Beat severely
    
6. Make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)
   - intoxicate, inebriate
    
7. Become drunk or drink excessively
   - souse, inebriate, hit it up
    
8. Fill, soak, or imbue totally
   "soak the bandage with disinfectant"
   - imbue
    
9. Heat a metal prior to working it

Derived forms: soakings

See also: soaker

Type of: action, activity, affect, beat, beat up, booze, charge, cheat, chisel, consign, drink, fuddle, heat, heat up, immerse, impregnate, lavation, natural action, natural process, plunge, rip off, saturate, wash, washing, wet, wetting, work over

Encyclopedia: Soak