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Synonyms of soak in English:

soak


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verb

1‘soak the beans overnight in water’

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immerse, steep, submerge, submerse, dip, sink, dunk, bathe, wet, rinse, douse, marinate, souse, pickle, ret

2‘we got soaked by the rain’

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drench, wet through, saturate, waterlog, deluge, inundate, submerge, drown, swamp
archaic sop

3‘the sweat soaked through his clothes’

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permeate, penetrate, percolate, soak into, seep into, seep through, spread through, infuse, impregnate, imbue, pervade

4‘use clean tissues to soak up any droplets of water’

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absorb, suck up, draw in, draw up, blot, blot up, mop, mop up, sponge up, sop up, take in, take up