dictionary definitions for "soaked"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  soaked
      adj 1: wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door
             drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "a shirt saturated
             with perspiration"; "his shoes were sopping (or
             soaking)"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy
             clothes" [syn: drenched, saturated, soaking,
             sodden, sopping, soppy]
      2: very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto,
         crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed,
         pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped,
         sloshed, smashed, soused, sozzled, squiffy,
         stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tight, tipsy, wet]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Soak \Soak\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Soaked; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Soaking.] [OE. soken, AS. socian to sioak, steep, fr.
     s?can, s?gan, to suck. See Suck.]
     1. 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.
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     2. To drench; to wet thoroughly.
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              Their land shall be soaked with blood. --Isa. xxiv.
                                                    7.
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     3. To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a
        sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
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     4. To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; --
        often with through.
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              The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through
              wreaths of snow.                      --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     5. Fig.: To absorb; to drain. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton.
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