v. 1 drench, saturate, wet, immerse, souse, douse or dowse, bathe, steep, inundate, ret You'd better let the tablecloth soak for a while to get out those wine stains 2 soak up. absorb, take in, sponge up; assimilate, learn The parched earth soaked up the water like a sponge Let me just lie here and soak up some sunshine. She spent years soaking up the culture of the Cameroons.
n. 3 alcoholic, drunkard, drunk, dipsomaniac, drinker, tippler, toper, sot, Slang sponge, souse, boozer, US dip, lush, juicer You'll never get a straight answer out of that old soak