soak

verb · nounA1

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

soaks

V_ing/Gerund

soaking

V_ed/pp

soaked

1.
(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.
(transitive)To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
Soak the beans overnight before cooking.
3.
(intransitive)To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
The water soaked into my shoes and gave me wet feet.
4.
(transitive)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.
(figuratively, transitive)(originally US slang, figurative, transitive) To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.
Đồng nghĩa: fleece
6.
(dated, slang)To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
7.
(transitive)(metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
8.
(transitive)(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.
(figuratively, transitive)(figurative, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
10.
(Mormonism, slang)(slang, chiefly Mormonism) To engage in penetrative sex without hip thrusting.
11.
(transitive)(slang, boxing) To hit or strike.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

soaks

1.
An immersion in water etc.
After the strenuous climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath.
2.
(British, slang)A drunkard.
Đồng nghĩa: alcoholic, souse, suck-pint, alco, alcoholic, alkie, bacchanal, bacchant, barfly, bibber, booze artist, boozehound, boozer, borachio, bouser, carouser, cupster, dipso, dipsomaniac, drinker, drunk, drunkard, fuddlecap, fuddler, grog artist, guzzler, inebriate, juicehead, lick-wimble, lush, lusher, maltworm, pisshead, pisspot, plonko, reel-pot, rinse-pitcher, rumpot, shicker, slubberdegullion, soak, soaker, sot, souse, sponge, squeeze-grape, sucker, suck-pint, swill-belly, swill-bowl, swill-flagon, swill-pot, swill-tub, swillking, tippler, toper, tosspot, tun, winebibber, winesop, wino
3.
(slang)A carouse; a drinking session.
4.
(Australia)A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.

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Đồng nghĩa

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English soken, from Old English socian (to soak, steep), from Proto-Germanic *sukōną (to soak), causative of Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (to suck). Cognate with soken. More at suck.