soak

To soak something is to submerge it into water. Before you cook dry beans, you soak them overnight first. If you’re not a bean, you can also soak up a cool experience by immersing yourself in it.

You can soak your dirty laundry in soapy water, or soak rice before you cook it, and you can also soak in a bubble bath. When you do this, you give these things (including yourself) a soak. Informally, the verb also means "immerse in an activity or experience," like when you soak up the applause after your masterful violin performance.

Primary Meanings of soak

1.	v n	submerge in a liquid washing something by allowing it to soak
2.	v	rip off; ask an unreasonable price
3.	v	make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)
4.	v	heat a metal prior to working it
5.	v	leave as a guarantee in return for money

Full Definitions of soak

v submerge in a liquid

“I soaked in the hot tub for an hour”

Type of:: immerse, plunge
thrust or throw into

v cover with liquid; pour liquid onto

Synonyms:: douse, dowse, drench, sop, souse

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; brine
soak in brine; bedraggle, draggle
make wet and dirty, as from rain; bate
soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; ret
place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue; flush, sluice
irrigate with water from a sluice

Type of:: wet
cause to become wet

v fill, soak, or imbue totally

“soak the bandage with disinfectant”

Synonyms:: imbue

Types:: show 6 types...; hide 6 types...; infuse, steep
let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse; brew
sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor; marinade, marinate
soak in marinade; decoct
steep in hot water; infuse
undergo the process of infusion; draw
steep; pass through a strainer

Type of:: impregnate, saturate
infuse or fill completely

n washing something by allowing it to soak

Synonyms:: soaking

Type of:: lavation, wash, washing
the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

n the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)

“a good soak put life back in the wagon”

Synonyms:: soakage, soaking

Type of:: action, activity, natural action, natural process
a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)

v rip off; ask an unreasonable price

Synonyms:: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, surcharge

Antonyms:: undercharge
charge (someone) too little money

Types:: extort, gouge, rack, squeeze, wring
obtain by coercion or intimidation; bleed
get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone

Type of:: cheat, chisel, rip off
deprive somebody of something by deceit

v beat severely

Type of:: beat, beat up, work over
give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression

v make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)

Synonyms:: inebriate, intoxicate

Types:: befuddle, fuddle
make stupid with alcohol

Type of:: affect
act physically on; have an effect upon

v become drunk or drink excessively

Synonyms:: hit it up, inebriate, souse

Type of:: booze, drink, fuddle
consume alcohol

v heat a metal prior to working it

Type of:: heat, heat up
make hot or hotter

v leave as a guarantee in return for money

Synonyms:: hock, pawn

Type of:: charge, consign
give over to another for care or safekeeping