as in alcoholics
a person who makes a habit of getting drunk
felt sorry for the town soak, who couldn't hold a job
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as in saturates
to wet thoroughly with liquid
we ran for home as soon as the rain started, but our clothes still ended up soaked
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as in stings
to charge (someone) too much for goods or services
a merchant who soaks the tourists every summer
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as in wets
to make wet
that downpour soaked my hair, and now I look like a sight
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as in drinks
to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages
depressed about his love life, he repaired to a bar to soak
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Recent Examples of soaks
Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 2 Feb. 2026
Zion Canyon Hot Springs, which opened last summer in La Verkin, Utah, offers travelers a restorative escape with 50 pools—from geothermal soaks fed by local springs to cold plunges and mineral baths that replicate the world’s most iconic hot springs and their therapeutic benefits.
—Brittany Anas, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
In addition to treating skin, bath soaks offer a particularly good way of making the most of magnesium’s inherently relaxing benefits, too.
—Deanna Pai, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2026
Macuga designed a bathroom with ample space for two people to share comfortably, complete with a steam shower with two heads and a floating bench and a generous stand-alone tub for lingering soaks.
—Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 31 Oct. 2025
Bathhouses were built for healing soaks, and drinking pavilions were abundant.
—Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
Remove rust with steel wool, vinegar soaks, baking soda paste, or coarse salt scrubs.
—Emily Benda Gaylord, The Spruce, 17 Jan. 2026
Long soaks and extreme heat damage wood by swelling and drying it unevenly, making spoons more likely to crack and split.
—Bridget Shirvell, Martha Stewart, 29 Dec. 2025
In this model, dark matter isn't a particle at all but rather a quantum field that soaks all of space and time.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 26 Dec. 2025
When to Go Throughout the year, Ouray's natural beauty attracts hikers to the trails for warm-weather activities followed by hot spring soaks back in town, but the ski season doesn't start until December.
—Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2025
Prolonged acetone removal soaks and filing can cause damage nails over time.
—Georgia Day, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2025
That natural setting soaks into the music.
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
The fields, the pints and the football largely look the same in both Iowa and Wisconsin, and the beer soaks the palate of life along the Driftless beer highway.
—Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
Staying warm is key, so Blum suggested taking warm showers, soaks or baths, using heating pads and getting warm massages.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 2 Feb. 2026
Zion Canyon Hot Springs, which opened last summer in La Verkin, Utah, offers travelers a restorative escape with 50 pools—from geothermal soaks fed by local springs to cold plunges and mineral baths that replicate the world’s most iconic hot springs and their therapeutic benefits.
—Brittany Anas, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
In addition to treating skin, bath soaks offer a particularly good way of making the most of magnesium’s inherently relaxing benefits, too.
—Deanna Pai, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2026
Macuga designed a bathroom with ample space for two people to share comfortably, complete with a steam shower with two heads and a floating bench and a generous stand-alone tub for lingering soaks.
—Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 31 Oct. 2025
Bathhouses were built for healing soaks, and drinking pavilions were abundant.
—Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
Rain soaks everyone to the skin every day, yet no one remembers an umbrella.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
Remove rust with steel wool, vinegar soaks, baking soda paste, or coarse salt scrubs.
—Emily Benda Gaylord, The Spruce, 17 Jan. 2026
Long soaks and extreme heat damage wood by swelling and drying it unevenly, making spoons more likely to crack and split.
—Bridget Shirvell, Martha Stewart, 29 Dec. 2025
In this model, dark matter isn't a particle at all but rather a quantum field that soaks all of space and time.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 26 Dec. 2025
When to Go Throughout the year, Ouray's natural beauty attracts hikers to the trails for warm-weather activities followed by hot spring soaks back in town, but the ski season doesn't start until December.
—Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2025
Prolonged acetone removal soaks and filing can cause damage nails over time.
—Georgia Day, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2025
That natural setting soaks into the music.
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
The fields, the pints and the football largely look the same in both Iowa and Wisconsin, and the beer soaks the palate of life along the Driftless beer highway.
—Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for soaks
Noun
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AlAnon is a support group for family and friends of alcoholics/addicts.—
Ramona Sentinel,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
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Erdoğan’s speeches are full of practical advice about how to destroy the left, such as calling progressives lazy, impractical alcoholics funded by globalist lobbies and contrasting the efficiency of an imperial president with the messiness of parliamentary policymaking.—
Kaya Genç,
The Dial,
3 Feb. 2026
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Sixty years later, the Spectacle saturates us in ways the Situationists never imagined.—
Hari Kunzru,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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This gives your poinsettia a long, deep drink that saturates the roots without drowning them.—
Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 Dec. 2025
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Of Iran’s many squandered possibilities, the waste of our soft power stings the most.—
Arash Azizi,
Time,
3 Feb. 2026
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This stings less thanks to the healthy variety of all-timers currently in the field.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2026
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Sweat that can’t escape wets a jacket’s layer of insulation and accelerates heat loss.—
Longji Cui,
The Conversation,
26 Dec. 2025
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But the comedy is absolutely something that wets my beak, I'm drawn to it.—
H. Alan Scott,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Both drinks help with fluid intake, but coconut water is the better choice after a workout or a hot day.—
Abby Norman,
Verywell Health,
16 Feb. 2026
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Sugary drinks are defined as non-alcoholic beverages with natural or artificial sweeteners, or drinks with less than 50% fruit juice.—
Karen Morfitt,
CBS News,
7 Feb. 2026
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The Inn Solitude, a Bavarian-style lodge with ski in and ski out access, where rooms have balconies and plush amenities, also has an outdoor hot tub, which is a nice escape from the rest of the villages’ soakers.—
Wendy Altschuler,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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First into his life comes Jessie involved in a shipwreck with her uncle, a past colleague of Mason’s, who drowns in a vicious storm and almost takes Jessie down with him before she is heroically rescued from near death by Mason, who brings her out of the drink and then back to life.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
28 Jan. 2026
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What should be a fast minimum viable product (MVP) becomes a bloated prototype that delays launch and drowns out real user feedback.—
Renae Gregoire,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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In 2017, he was recalled after backing the $5 billion yearly gas tax that still gouges at the pump.—
John Seiler,
Oc Register,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Soaks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soaks. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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