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You can make 17 words from soak according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of soak

soak osak saok asok oask aosk soka oska skoa ksoa oksa kosa sako asko skao ksao akso kaso oaks aoks okas koas akos kaos

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Definitions and meaning of soak

soak

Etymology

From Middle English soken, from Old English socian (“to soak, steep”, literally “to cause to suck (up)”), from Proto-Germanic *sukōną (“to soak”), causative of Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (“to suck”). Cognate with Middle Dutch soken (“to cause to suck”). More at suck.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: sōk, IPA^(key): /səʊk/
• (General American) enPR: sōk, IPA^(key): /soʊk/
• Rhymes: -əʊk
• Homophone: soke

Verb

soak (third-person singular simple present soaks, present participle soaking, simple past and past participle soaked)

1. (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
2. (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.

3. (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
4. (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
5. (slang, figurative, transitive) To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.

   Synonym: fleece
6. (slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
7. (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
8. (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.

9. (figurative, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
10. (slang, chiefly Mormonism) To engage in penetrative sex without hip thrusting.

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Verb

soak (third-person singular simple present soaks, present participle soaking, simple past and past participle soaked)

1. (transitive) (slang, boxing) To hit or strike.

Noun

soak (plural soaks)

1. An immersion in water etc.

   After the strenuous climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath.

2. (slang, British) A drunkard.
3. (slang) A carouse; a drinking session.
4. (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
   • 1996, Doris Pinkington, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 170:

     Molly and Daisy finished their breakfast and decided to take all their dirty clothes and wash them in the soak further down the river.

Synonyms

• (drunkard): alcoholic, souse, suck-pint; See also Thesaurus:drunkard

Derived terms

• soak test

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Anagrams

• Kosa, koas, oaks, okas

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch zwak (“weak”), from Middle Dutch swac, from Old Dutch *swak, from Proto-West Germanic *swak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsoaʔ]
• Hyphenation: so‧ak

Adjective

soak

1. (colloquial) weak.

   Synonym: lemah

Further reading

• “soak” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.