soak
pronunciation
How to pronounce soak in British English:
UK [səʊk]
How to pronounce soak in American English:
US [soʊk]
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- Noun:
- the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
- washing something by allowing it to soak
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- Verb:
- submerge in a liquid
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- leave as a guarantee in return for money
- beat severely; slang
- make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)
- become drunk or drink excessively
- fill, soak, or imbue totally
- heat a metal prior to working it
Word Origin
- soak
- soak: [OE] Soak and suck come from the same ultimate source, the prehistoric Germanic base *suk-. It appears to have been a fairly late Germanic formation, for its only known immediate relative is West Frisian soken or zoken ‘soak’.=> suck
- soak (v.)
- Old English socian (intransitive) "to soak, to lie in liquid," from Proto-Germanic *sukon (cognates: West Flemish soken), possibly from PIE *sug-, from root *seue- (2) "to take liquid" (see sup (v.2)). Transitive sense "drench, permeate thoroughly" is from mid-14c.; that of "cause to lie in liquid" is from early 15c. Meaning "take up by absorption" is from 1550s. Slang meaning "to overcharge" first recorded 1895. Related: Soaked; soaking. As a noun, mid-15c., from the verb.
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Example
- 1. If your filters are particularly dirty , let them soak overnight .
- 2. A simple strategy is to soak in the bath for 15 minutes .
- 3. Take your sponge and soak it in the lemon water .
- 4. Take a minute to just stand outside where ever you are and just soak it all in .
- 5. Saturate the top and sides of the sticker with undiluted distilled vinegar and wait 10-15 minutes for the vinegar to soak through .