The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - soakv.

1) drench, saturate, wet, immerse, souse, douse or dowse, bathe, steep, inundate, ret: You'd better let the tablecloth soak for a while to get out those wine stains. 2) soak up. absorb, take in, sponge up; assimilate, learn: The parched earth soaked up the water like a sponge. Let me just lie here and soak up some sunshine. She spent years soaking up the culture of the Cameroons. --n. 3) alcoholic, drunkard, drunk, dipsomaniac, drinker, tippler, toper, sot, Slang sponge, souse, boozer, US dip, lush, juicer: You'll never get a straight answer out of that old soak. SOAKING n. 1) drenching, wetting, dousing or dowsing, immersing, saturating: We got a thorough soaking when we were caught in the storm. --adj. 2) wet, sopping, drenched, dripping, saturated, soaked, wringing wet, streaming, sodden, waterlogged: Take off your soaking clothes and sit by the fire in this robe.