Definition: soaked

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

soaked
     adj 1: wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door
            drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "a shirt saturated
            with perspiration"; "his shoes were sopping (or
            soaking)"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy
            clothes" [syn: drenched, saturated, soaking, sodden,
             sopping, soppy]
     2: slang for `drunk' [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto,
         crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated,
         plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soused,
         sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tight,
         tipsy, wet]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.