soak

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To make thoroughly wet or saturated by or as if by placing in liquid.
2. v. To immerse in liquid for a period of time.
3. v. To absorb (liquid, for example) through or as if through pores or interstices.
4. v. To remove (a stain, for example) by continued immersion: soaked out the grease spots.
5. v. Informal To take in or accept mentally, especially eagerly and easily: soaked up the gossip.
6. v. Informal To drink (alcoholic liquor), especially to excess.
7. v. Informal To make (a person) drunk.
8. v. Slang To overcharge (a person).
9. v. To be immersed until thoroughly saturated.
10. v. To penetrate or permeate; seep: The speaker paused to let her words soak in.
11. v. Slang To drink to excess.
12. n. The act or process of soaking.
13. n. The condition of being soaked.
14. n. Liquid in which something may be soaked.
15. n. Slang A drunkard.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To lie in and become saturated with water or some other liquid; steep.
2. To pass, especially to enter, as a liquid, through pores or interstices; penetrate thoroughly by saturation: followed by in or through.
3. To flow.
4. To drink intemperately and habitually, especially strong drink; booze; be continually under the influence of liquor.
5. To become drained or dry. Compare soak, v. t., 7.
6. To sit over the fire absorbing the heat.
7. Hence To receive a prolonged baking; bake thoroughly: said of bread.
8. To cause to lie immersed in a liquid until thoroughly saturated; steep: as, to soak rice in water; to soak a sponge.
9. To flood; saturate; drench; steep.
10. To take up by absorption; absorb through pores or other openings; suck in, as a liquid or other fluid: followed by in or up.
11. Hence, to drink; especially, to drink immoderately; guzzle.
12. To penetrate, work, or accomplish by wetting thoroughly: often with through.
13. To make soft as by steeping; hence, to enfeeble; enervate.
14. To suck dry; exhaust; drain.
15. To bake thoroughly: said of the lengthened baking given, in particular, to bread, so that the cooking may be complete.
16. To “put in soak”; pawn; pledge: as, he soaked his watch for ten dollars.
17. n. A soaking, in any sense of the verb.
18. n. Specifically, a drinking-bout; a spree.
19. n. That in which anything is soaked; a steep.
20. n. One who or that which soaks.
21. n. A landspring.
22. n. A tippler; a hard drinker.
23. n. An over-stocking, with or without a foot, worn over the long stocking for warmth or protection from dirt. Compare boot-hose, stirruphose.
24. To place in a furnace, or soaking pit, with the object of equalizing the temperature rather than causing an increase: especially applied to ingots of steel which, soon after casting, have a solid exterior or shell and a molten interior, and are therefore unfit for rolling until solid and of a nearly uniform temperature throughout.
25. n. A slough.
26. n. In tanning, a tank or vat of water for soaking hides or skins.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
2. v. transitive To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
3. v. intransitive To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
4. v. transitive To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
5. v. slang, dated To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
6. n. An immersion in water etc.
7. n. slang, UK A drunkard.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening
2. v. To drench; to wet thoroughly.
3. v. To draw in by the pores, or through small passages
4. v. To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through.
5. v. obsolete Fig.: To absorb; to drain.
6. v. To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated.
7. v. To enter (into something) by pores or interstices.
8. v. Slang To drink intemperately or gluttonously.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. leave as a guarantee in return for money
2. n. washing something by allowing it to soak
3. v. cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
4. v. beat severely
5. v. fill, soak, or imbue totally
6. v. heat a metal prior to working it
7. n. the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
8. v. rip off; ask an unreasonable price
9. v. become drunk or drink excessively
10. v. make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)
11. v. submerge in a liquid