soak

soak is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.
2. transitive verb. To drench; to wet thoroughly.
3. transitive verb. To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
4. transitive verb. To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through.
5. transitive verb. Fig.: To absorb; to drain.
6. intransitive verb. To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.
7. intransitive verb. To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.
8. intransitive verb. To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
9. noun. washing something by allowing it to soak

   Synonyms: soaking

10. 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: soakage, soaking

11. verb. cover with liquid; pour liquid onto

    "souse water on his hot face"

    Synonyms: douse, dowse, drench, sop, souse

12. verb. heat a metal prior to working it
13. verb. fill, soak, or imbue totally

    "soak the bandage with disinfectant"

    Synonyms: imbue

14. verb. become drunk or drink excessively

    Synonyms: inebriate, souse

15. verb. make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)

    Synonyms: inebriate, intoxicate

16. verb. beat severely
17. verb. submerge in a liquid

    "I soaked in the hot tub for an hour"

18. verb. rip off; ask an unreasonable price

    Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, surcharge

19. verb. leave as a guarantee in return for money

    "pawn your grandfather's gold watch"

    Synonyms: hock, pawn

Synonyms

soaking, soakage, douse, dowse, drench, sop, souse, imbue, inebriate, intoxicate, fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, surcharge, hock, pawn

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in soak:

koas, oaks, okas, soka

Common word forms

soaks, soaked, soaken, soaker, soaking

Words from these letters

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