soakverb/səʊk/

• 1

  To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.

  • I'm going to soak in the bath for a couple of hours.
  • Their land shall be soaked with blood.
• 2

  To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.

  • Soak the beans overnight before cooking.
• 3

  To penetrate or permeate by saturation.

  • The water soaked into my shoes and gave me wet feet.
  • The rivulet beneath […]soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow.
• 4

  To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)

  • A sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
  • I soaked up all the knowledge I could at university.
• 5

  To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.

  • It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot. […] Well, they got him in the same kind of jam, and soaked him to the tune of three hundred and eighty-six thousand.
  • Sure, if we own an aerospace contracting company, a five-thousand-acre sugar-beet farm, or a savings and loan with the president's son on the board of directors, we can soak Uncle Sucker for millions.
• 6

  datedslangTo drink intemperately or gluttonously.

• 7

  engineeringmetallurgynatural-sciencesTo heat (a metal) before shaping it.

• 8

  ceramicschemistryengineeringTo hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.

  • We should soak the kiln at cone 9 for half an hour.

soakverb/səʊk/

• 1

  (slang, boxing) To hit or strike.

  • Wasn't Mr. Sipperley pretty shirty when he came to and found that you had been soaking him with putters?

soaknoun/səʊk/

• 1

  An immersion in water etc.

  • After the strenuous climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath.
  • wildlife tourism has turned Knepp into a successful business that employs more people than it did when it was a farm. Springtime overnighters snuggling down in a luxury treehouse after a soak in the open-air, wood-fired Swedish Hikki bathtub may hear nightingales serenading their consorts
• 2

  slangA drunkard.

• 3

  slangA carouse; a drinking session.

• 4

  A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.

  • I set off early to walk along the Melbourne Road where, one of the punters had told me, there was a soak with plenty of frogs in it.
  • Molly and Daisy finished their breakfast and decided to take all their dirty clothes and wash them in the soak further down the river.