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soak

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of soak

1 to wet thoroughly with liquid

We ran for home as soon as the rain started, but our clothes still ended up soaked.

Synonyms of soak

drench, drown, impregnate, macerate, saturate, sop, souse, steep

Words Related to soak

marinate, seethe

dip, immerse, inundate, submerge, swamp

bathe, douse (also dowse), hydrate, swill, wash, water

infiltrate, penetrate, permeate

damp, dampen, humidify, moisten

Near Antonyms of soak

dehydrate, desiccate, dry, parch, sear

drain, empty, void

Antonyms of soak

2 to charge (someone) too much for goods or services

a merchant who soaks the tourists every summer

Synonyms of soak

gouge, overcharge, sting, surcharge

Words Related to soak

cheat, defraud, stick

clip, fleece, skin

Antonyms of soak

3 to make wet

That downpour soaked my hair, and now I look like a sight!

Synonyms of soak

bathe, bedraggle, douse (also dowse), drench, drown, sop, souse, wash, water, water-soak, waterlog, wet, wet down

Words Related to soak

asperse, bedew, damp, dampen, drizzle, humidify, hydrate, mist, moisten, moisturize, shower, sprinkle

deluge, flood, hose (down), inundate, overflow

submerge, swamp

impregnate, saturate, steep

flush, irrigate, lave, rinse, slosh, sluice

dip, duck, dunk

rehydrate, rewash, rewet

Near Antonyms of soak

dewater, evaporate, freeze-dry

drip-dry, wring

Antonyms of soak

dehydrate, desiccate, dry, parch, scorch, sear

Synonym Discussion of soak

soak, saturate, drench, steep, impregnate mean to permeate or be permeated with a liquid. soak implies usually prolonged immersion as for softening or cleansing.

- soak the garment in soapy water

saturate implies a resulting effect of complete absorption until no more liquid can be held.

- a saturated sponge

drench implies a thorough wetting by something that pours down or is poured.

- clothes drenched by a cloudburst

steep suggests either the extraction of an essence (as of tea leaves) by the liquid or the imparting of a quality (such as a color) to the thing immersed.

- steep the tea for five minutes

impregnate implies a thorough interpenetration of one thing by another.

- a cake strongly impregnated with brandy

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