soakverb
uk/səʊk/us/soʊk/C1 [ I + adv/prep, T ] to make something very wet, or (of liquid) to be absorbed in large amounts:
The wind had blown the rain in and soaked the carpet.
You'd better wipe up that red wine you've spilled before it soaks (= is absorbed) into the carpet.
Blood had soaked through both bandages.
B2 [ I or T ] to leave something in liquid, especially in order to clean it, make it softer, or change its flavour:
You can usually soak out a stain.
Leave the beans to soak overnight./Let the beans soak overnight.
Soak the fruit in brandy for a few hours before you add it to the mixture.
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Wet weather & wetness
- bedraggled
- clammy
- dampen
- deluge
- douse
- dreich
- drown
- look like a drowned rat idiom
- misty
- mizzle
- moist
- moisten
- rainy
- rehydration
- saturated
- soaking
- sodden
- soggy
- sun shower
- sweat
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Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
Phrasal verb(s)
soak sth up
soaknoun [ C ]
uk/səʊk/us/soʊk/soak noun [ C ] (MAKE WET)
a period of time during which something is in liquid:
Most dried beans need a soak before they're cooked.
Showers are all right but there's nothing like a good long soak in the bath.
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Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
- beleaguer
- beleaguered
- beset
- border
- box sb/sth in
- dunk
- fence sth in
- fence sth off
- flood
- gather
- gift-wrap
- gift-wrapped
- steep
- surround
- swallow
- wall sth off
- wound 1
- wrap
- wrap (sb) up
- wrap sth around sb/sth
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soak noun [ C ] (PERSON)
old-fashioned informal a person who is often drunk
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Drunkenness & sobriety
- a drop too much (to drink) idiom
- alcoholic
- battered
- be as high as a kite idiom
- beer goggles
- binge drinking
- blasted
- bombed
- inebriate
- inebriated
- influence
- intoxicate
- intoxicated
- muzzy
- sloshed
- sober (sb) up
- sobriety
- sot
- soused
- whacked
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