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 synonyms:

1. List of paraphrases:

   saturate, dip, stabilization, bath, dunk, stabilisation

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How to use soak in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. Matthew Sullivan:

   In the last 20 years or so, weve learned that half of the oxygen that we breathe comes from marine organisms, additionally, the oceans soak up half of the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

3. Francis M. Faber Jr.:

   Approximately how many 'inkspots' can a police blotter soak-up before it is retired or replaced?

4. Abby Wambach:

   I can't tell you what it means to be a world champion, to win a World Cup, because obviously it hasn't really sunk in. ... I can't believe it. I am going to soak it up.

5. 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.

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