Synonyms for soak
soʊk

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1. soak, soakage, soaking(noun)

   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, soaking(verb)

   washing something by allowing it to soak

   Synonyms:
   sousing, drenching, souse, soakage, soaking

3. soak(verb)

   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, hook(verb)

   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, souse(verb)

   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, hock(verb)

   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. soak(verb)

   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, inebriate(verb)

   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 up(verb)

   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, imbue(verb)

    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. soak(verb)

    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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. soak

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

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

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. soak(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   steep, macerate, imbrue, drench

2. soak(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   steep, be soaked

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. soak(v)

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these paraphrases:

1. List of paraphrases for "soak":

   saturate, dip, stabilization, bath, dunk, stabilisation

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How to use soak in a sentence?

1. Josie Feria:

   Soak in your room tub with Epsom salt added to the water, it will reduce inflammation.

2. Emma Thompson:

   Ever since that I’ve been addicted to eating them. I just have to soak them in (dishwashing liquid) and then chew on them. I always have to make sure I have sponges in the house.

3. Henry Ward Beecher:

   Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

4. Suu Kyi:

   I stand here to reaffirm our commitment to continue our reform and to build an investment-friendly environment, please do come to Myanmar, soak in an atmosphere brimming with opportunities and witness our new-found economic vibrancy with your own eyes.

5. Le Maire:

   If Air France does not make efforts to become more competitive, allowing this flagship to be at the same level at Lufthansa and other airline companies, Air France will disappear, 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.

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