Definition: soak

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

soak
     n 1: the process of becoming softened and saturated as a
          consequence of being immersed in water (or other
          liquid); "a good soak put life back in the wagon" [syn:
          soakage, soaking]
     2: washing something by allowing it to soak [syn: soaking]
     v 1: submerge in a liquid; "I soaked in the hot tub for an hour"
     2: rip off; ask an unreasonable price [syn: overcharge, surcharge,
         gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook]
        [ant: undercharge]
     3: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot
        face" [syn: drench, douse, dowse, sop, souse]
     4: give as a guarantee [syn: pawn, hock]
     5:  beat severely; slang
     6: make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) [syn: intoxicate, inebriate]
     7: become drunk; drink excessively [syn: souse, inebriate,
        hit it up]
     8: fill, soak, or imbue totally; "saturate the bandage with
        disinfectant" [syn: saturate, imbue]
     9: heat a metal prior to working it

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Soak \Soak\, v. i.
   1. To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become
      sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.

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

   3. To drink intemperately or gluttonously. [Slang]
Soak \Soak\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Soaked; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Soaking.] [OE. soken, AS. socian to sioak, steep, fr.
   s?can, s?gan, to suck. See Suck.]
   1. To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance
      has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or
      other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or
      freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt
      meat, salt fish, or the like.

   2. To drench; to wet thoroughly.

            Their land shall be soaked with blood. --Isa. xxiv.
                                                  7.

   3. To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a
      sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.

   4. To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; --
      often with through.

            The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through
            wreaths of snow.                      --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

   5. Fig.: To absorb; to drain. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton.