To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
I'm going to soak in the bath for a couple of hours.
To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
Soak the beans overnight before cooking.
To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
The water soaked into my shoes and gave me wet feet.
An immersion in water etc.
After the strenuous climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath.
A drunkard.
From Middle English soken, from Old English socian (“to soak, steep”, literally “to cause to suck (up)”), from Proto-Germanic *sukōną (“to soak”), causative of Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (“to suck”). Cogn...
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A carouse; a drinking session.