soak sth up
— phrasal verb with soak uk/səʊk/us/soʊk/verb
(LIQUID)
If a dry material or substance soaks up a liquid, it absorbs the liquid through its surface:
I tried to soak up most of the spilled milk with a dishcloth.
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Physical & chemical processes
- addition reaction
- adiabatic
- adsorb
- advection
- alpha decay
- corrode
- degradable
- diffraction
- dissolve
- exothermic reaction
- impregnate
- processus
- redox
- refraction
- rehydrate
- saponification
- scald
- secretion
- suction
- the carbon cycle
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(EXPERIENCE)
B2 to enjoy the effects or experience of something as much as possible:
I love to lie on the beach and soak up the sun.
Just stroll around the bazaar and soak up the atmosphere.
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Taking pleasure in something
- bask
- bask in sth
- bask/bathe in reflected glory idiom
- be a glutton for punishment idiom
- be a great one for sth idiom
- drool
- ecstasy
- glory
- glutton
- have a ball idiom
- have a field day idiom
- have a rare old time idiom
- hedonic
- lap
- relish
- revel
- revel in sth
- ride (on) a wave of sth idiom
- self-indulgent
- soak
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(INFORMATION)
informal to understand and remember information well:
Given the right environment, children are like sponges and will soak up information.
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Understanding and comprehending
- apprehend
- apprehension
- at your fingertips idiom
- attune
- bear in on/upon
- common
- fathom
- feel
- fingertip
- hit
- make sth/sb of sth/sb
- make sth/sb out
- mind
- picture
- plumb
- read between the lines idiom
- reading
- realization
- take sth in
- twig
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(USE ALL)
to use up all or most of a supply of something, especially a supply of money:
The repairs on our house soaked up all our savings.
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Using and misusing
- adopt
- adoption
- advantage
- avail
- avail yourself of sth
- be/go heavy on sth idiom
- go into sth
- go through sth
- gobble sth up
- heavy
- make capital out of sth idiom
- max
- mine
- unused
- upcycle
- upcycling
- usable
- usage
- use
- wear
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