<p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.</li><li>to pass, as a liquid, through pores, holes, or the like: The rain soaked through the tear in the umbrella.</li><li>to be thoroughly wet: Her shoes and socks were soaking and her feet were freezing.</li><li>to penetrate or become known to the mind or feelings (followed by in): The lesson didn't soak in.</li><li>Informal: to drink immoderately, especially alcoholic beverages: They were soaking at the bar.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to place or keep in liquid in order to saturate thoroughly; steep.</li><li>to wet thoroughly; saturate or drench.</li><li>Antonyms: dry.</li><li>to permeate thoroughly, as liquid or moisture does.</li><li>Metallurgy: to heat (a piece) for reworking.</li><li>Informal: to intoxicate (oneself) by drinking an excess of liquor.</li><li>Slang: to beat hard; punish severely: I was soaked for that mistake.</li><li>to extract or remove by or as by soaking (often followed by out): to soak a stain out of a napkin.</li><li>Slang: to overcharge: He was soaked by the waiter.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act or state of soaking or the state of being soaked.</li><li>the liquid in which anything is soaked.</li><li>Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a habitual drinker of alcohol who is frequently intoxicated; a heavy drinker.</li><li>Australian: any small area of land, as near a spring or at the foot of a hill, that becomes swamplike or holds water after a period of heavy rain.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to absorb or take in or up by absorption: Blotting paper soaks up ink.</li><li>to absorb with one's mind or senses; take in: to soak up information.</li><li>Slang: to drink to excess: He can really soak up the booze.</li></ul>