Crossword-Solution: SOAK
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Soak | v. t. | 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. |
| Soak | v. t. | To drench; to wet thoroughly. |
| Soak | v. t. | To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture. |
| Soak | v. t. | To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through. |
| Soak | v. t. | Fig.: To absorb; to drain. |
| Soak | v. i. | To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak. |
| Soak | v. i. | To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter. |
| Soak | v. i. | To drink intemperately or gluttonously. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SOAK | anagram | AOKS, ASOK, KAOS, KOAS, OAKS, OKAS, SOKA |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with SOAK (5)
Too much liquor is bad, and leads us to that horned man in the smoky house; but, after all, many people haven’t the gift of enjoying a soak, and since we are highly favoured with a power that way, we should make the most o’t.” “True,” said Mark Clark.
Bromide Paper.--Of all common photographic paper, the best, because the least troublesome in making, and the most satisfactory in result, is that which is termed bromine paper, and which is thus prepared:--Dissolve one hundred grains of bromide of potassium in one ounce of distilled water, and soak the paper in this solution.
They'll jeer at me, and they'll sneer at me, and they'll call me a whiskey soak; ("Have a drink? Well, thankee kindly, sir, I don't mind if I do.") A drivelling, dirty, gin-joint fiend, the butt of the bar-room joke; Sunk and sodden and hopeless -- "Another? Well, here's to you!" McGuffy is showing a bunch of the boys how Bob Fitzsimmons hit; The barman is talking of Tammany Hall, and why the ward boss got fired.
Morel said to herself—“I wait, and what I wait for can never come.” Then she straightened the kitchen, lit the lamp, mended the fire, looked out the washing for the next day, and put it to soak.
Nathless by change The travailing earth is lightened, but stint not With refuse rich to soak the thirsty soil, And shower foul ashes o'er the exhausted fields.
Quotes with SOAK (3)
You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.
I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night — in the moments before I pass off into sleep — ideas explode into my head like fireworks. There is no greater joy than the burst of solution to a problem. Incredible that anything could happen to take away this bubbling energy, the zest that fills everything I do. It's as if all the knowledge I've soaked in during t…
Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 362 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).