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| 1. v. (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it. |  |
| I'm going to soak in the bath for a couple of hours. | |
| 2. v. To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation. | |
| Soak the beans overnight before cooking. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation. | |
| The water soaked into my shoes and gave me wet feet. | |
| 4. v. 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. v. (figurative, transitive) To take money from. | |
| 1928, Upton Sinclair, Boston | |
| 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 th | |
| 6. v. (slang) To drink intemperately or gluttonously. | |
| 7. v. (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it. | |
| 8. v. (ceramics, transitive) To 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. | |
| 9. v. (figurative, transitive) To absorb; to drain. | |
| 10. n. An immersion in water etc. | |
| After the climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath. | |
| 11. n. (slang) A drunkard. | |
| 12. n. (slang) A carouse; a drinking session. | |
| 13. n. (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain. | |
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