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Soaked   /soʊkt/   Listen
Soaked

adjective
1.
Very drunk.  Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet.


Soak

verb
(past & past part. soaked; pres. part. soaking)
1.
Submerge in a liquid.
2.
Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.  Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, surcharge.
3.
Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto.  Synonyms: douse, dowse, drench, sop, souse.
4.
Leave as a guarantee in return for money.  Synonyms: hock, pawn.
5.
Beat severely.
6.
Make drunk (with alcoholic drinks).  Synonyms: inebriate, intoxicate.
7.
Become drunk or drink excessively.  Synonyms: hit it up, inebriate, souse.
8.
Fill, soak, or imbue totally.  Synonym: imbue.
9.
Heat a metal prior to working it.



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"Soaked" Quotes from Famous Books



... that it was a rolling Court of Miracles; the cripples jumped with jointed legs, those whose intestines were burning soaked them in bumpers of cognac, the one-eyed opened their eyes, the fevered capered about, the sick throats bellowed and ...
— Sac-Au-Dos - 1907 • Joris Karl Huysmans
... bleach an elephant. He had an especially strong solution of peroxide of hydrogen made up, and I selected the smallest animal out of our herd of eighty to try it on. It happened to be the one which you just saw working on the ballyhoo over there, which you noticed was the ordinary slate color. We soaked cloths in the peroxide and covered the beast with them and then put blankets on top. After they had been on for awhile we washed the animal with ammonia and water and repeated the performance until that elephant was ...
— Side Show Studies • Francis Metcalfe
... before they are eaten. The finest sort, which are of a clear colour, and not unlike isinglass, are dissolved in broth, to which they are said to give an exquisite flavour. After being soaked, they are sometimes introduced into the body of a fowl and stewed; but I am not quite versed in all the mysteries of a Chinese kitchen, so you must be satisfied with these ...
— Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits • Thomas Bingley
... depths of the Paradou. Autumn was fast approaching, and the trees seemed anxious as they stood there with their yellowing crests from which the leaves were falling one by one. The paths were already littered with dead foliage soaked with moisture, which gave out a sound as of sighing beneath one's tread. And away beyond the lawns misty vapour ascended, throwing a mourning veil over the blue distance. And the whole garden was wrapped in silence, broken only by some ...
— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola
... range and forest had been traversed when they reached a tract where they had trouble in finding water. There was snow above them, but it either soaked down through the strata, or the drainage from it descended on the other side of the divide. It was also, though not quite summer yet, unusually hot weather, and the season had been exceptionally dry, and they had contented themselves for a week with ...
— The Gold Trail • Harold Bindloss


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