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English Dictionary: soaked by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
soaked
adj
  1. very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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