soak

1. (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.Examples: "I'm going to soak in the bath for a couple of hours."; "Their land shall be soaked with blood."intransitive

2. (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.Examples: "Soak the beans overnight before cooking."transitive

3. (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.Examples: "The water soaked into my shoes and gave me wet feet."; "The rivulet beneath […]soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow."intransitive

4. (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)Examples: "A sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture."; "I soaked up all the knowledge I could at university."; "The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff."transitive

5. (originally US slang, figurative, transitive) To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.Examples: "It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot. […] Well, they got him in the same kind of jam, and soaked him to the tune of three hundred and eighty-six thousand."; "Sure, if we own an aerospace contracting company, a five-thousand-acre sugar-beet farm, or a savings and loan with the president's son on the board of directors, we can soak Uncle Sucker for millions."; "I think you’re totally right that there is a big constituency, especially now that the party has been transformed, of Republican- and populist-leaning Republican voters who would be fine with some soaking the rich in the context of a bigger budget deal. […] Just maintaining the changes to the state and local tax deduction that was, I think, one of the genuinely populist victories of the first Trump term. And I should say, it soaked me, it soaked the upper middle class in blue states."Synonyms: fleece#Verbfigurativelytransitive

6. (slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.datedslang