Synonyms for soak
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1. soak

   Synonyms:
   wet, steep, drench, macerate, moisten, submerge

   Antonyms:
   dry, air, wring, exsiccate, aridify, bleach

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1. soak, soakage, soakingnoun

   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:
   sousing, drenching, souse, soakage, soaking

2. soak, soakingverb

   washing something by allowing it to soak

   Synonyms:
   sousing, drenching, souse, soakage, soaking

3. soakverb

   submerge in a liquid

   "I soaked in the hot tub for an hour"

   Synonyms:
   fleece, hit it up, surcharge, dowse, inebriate, hook, souse, pluck, drench, overcharge, sop, imbue, hock, gazump, intoxicate, pawn, rob, douse, plume

4. overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hookverb

   rip off; ask an unreasonable price

   Synonyms:
   crochet, pride, hook, nobble, dress, congratulate, cull, abstract, preen, glom, douse, sneak, rob, drench, hit it up, lift, displume, pick off, pilfer, roll, swipe, surcharge, overcharge, pull off, cop, accost, souse, pull, pawn, deplume, gazump, hustle, solicit, snare, dowse, snarf, shear, plunk, plume, pluck, primp, snitch, hock, tweak, pinch, filch, knock off, purloin, pick, deplumate, overload, thieve, sop, addict, cabbage, imbue, inebriate, tear, fleece, intoxicate

5. drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souseverb

   cover with liquid; pour liquid onto

   "souse water on his hot face"

   Synonyms:
   hock, fleece, imbue, plume, duck, inebriate, surcharge, hit it up, dowse, rob, dunk, hook, soak through, pluck, drench, put out, souse, sop, dip, swamp, gazump, intoxicate, pawn, overcharge, douse, plunge, imbrue

6. pawn, soak, hockverb

   leave as a guarantee in return for money

   "pawn your grandfather's gold watch"

   Synonyms:
   fleece, hit it up, imbue, surcharge, dowse, inebriate, hook, overcharge, pluck, drench, souse, sop, hock, gazump, intoxicate, pawn, rob, douse, plume

7. soakverb

   beat severely

   Synonyms:
   fleece, hit it up, surcharge, dowse, inebriate, hook, souse, pluck, drench, overcharge, sop, imbue, hock, gazump, intoxicate, pawn, rob, douse, plume

8. intoxicate, soak, inebriateverb

   make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)

   Synonyms:
   tickle pink, fleece, hit it up, uplift, imbue, surcharge, elate, thrill, inebriate, hook, souse, pluck, dowse, drench, exalt, overcharge, sop, hock, gazump, lift up, pawn, pick up, rob, intoxicate, douse, exhilarate, plume, beatify

9. souse, soak, inebriate, hit it upverb

   become drunk or drink excessively

   Synonyms:
   tickle pink, fleece, hit it up, imbue, surcharge, souse, dowse, rob, inebriate, hook, dunk, pluck, thrill, plunge, hock, exalt, overcharge, sop, dip, gazump, intoxicate, pawn, drench, douse, exhilarate, plume, beatify

10. soak, imbueverb

    fill, soak, or imbue totally

    "soak the bandage with disinfectant"

    Synonyms:
    fleece, hit it up, surcharge, riddle, dowse, permeate, inebriate, hook, souse, pluck, penetrate, drench, overcharge, sop, imbue, diffuse, hock, gazump, intoxicate, pawn, rob, douse, pervade, plume, hue, interpenetrate

11. soakverb

    heat a metal prior to working it

    Synonyms:
    fleece, hit it up, surcharge, dowse, inebriate, hook, souse, pluck, drench, overcharge, sop, imbue, hock, gazump, intoxicate, pawn, rob, douse, plume

Matched Categories

1. • Affect
   • Beat
   • Cheat
   • Commerce
   • Consign
   • Heat
   • Immerse
   • Natural Process

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1. soakverb

   Synonyms:
   steep, macerate, imbrue, drench

2. soakverb

   Synonyms:
   steep, be soaked

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1. soakverb

   Synonyms:
   drench, saturate, absorb, imbibe, macerate imbrue, steep

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1. List of paraphrases for "soak":

   saturate, dip, stabilization, bath, dunk, stabilisation

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1. Suu Kyi:

   Please do come to Myanmar, soak in an atmosphere brimming with opportunities and witness our new-found economic vibrancy with your own eyes.

2. Rod Ellingworth:

   Whether or not Cav agrees to finish the Tour, the one thing I know about him is that he can soak up the work as well as anybody.

3. Liz Bentley:

   It's going to continue into the autumn and then really, we don't know beyond that. It depends on whether we see any significant rainfall -- good steady rainfall that replenishes water levels, what we don't want at the moment are heavy, thundery downpours, because the ground is so dry that water just runs off. It doesn't soak into the ground.

4. Henry Miller:

   To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

5. Le Maire:

   We're minority shareholders ... those that think that whatever happens the state will come to Air France's rescue and soak up Air France's losses are mistaken.