Definition of soak

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Soak (v. i.) To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter..

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Insuccation :: Insuccation (n.) The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs.
Buck :: Buck (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
Infusion :: Infusion (v. t.) The act or process of steeping or soaking any substance in water in order to extract its virtues.
Soakage :: Soakage (n.) The act of soaking, or the state of being soaked; also, the quantity that enters or issues by soaking..
Boil :: Boil (v. t.) To steep or soak in warm water.
Water-soak :: Water-soak (v. t.) To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.
Suingly :: Suing (n.) The process of soaking through anything.
Soak :: Soak (v. i.) To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak..
Asoak :: Asoak (a.) Soaking.
Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching..
Sodden :: Sodden (p. p.) Boiled; seethed; also, soaked; heavy with moisture; saturated; as, sodden beef; sodden bread; sodden fields..
Sipe :: Sipe (v. i.) To run or soak through fine pores and interstices; to ooze.
Ret :: Ret (v. t.) To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment..
Oiled :: Oiled (a.) Covered or treated with oil; dressed with, or soaked in, oil..
Soak :: Soak (v. t.) To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture..
Bedrench :: Bedrench (v. t.) To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak.
Shagreen :: Shagreen (n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used f
Water Torch :: Water torch () The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil..
Amadou :: Amadou (n.) A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter..
Weep :: Weep (v. i.) To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked..
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