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soak

verb
  1. To make thoroughly wet: douse, drench, saturate, sodden, sop, souse, wet. See dry
  2. To saturate (something) with a liquid: steep 2. Chemistry: infuse. See dry
  3. To take in (moisture or liquid). Also used with up: absorb, drink, imbibe, sop up, take up. See give
  4. Informal. To take in and incorporate, especially mentally. Also used with up: absorb, assimilate, digest, imbibe, take up. See accept
  5. Informal. To take alcoholic liquor, especially excessively or habitually: drink, guzzle, imbibe, tipple. Informal: nip 2. Slang: booze, lush 2, tank up. Idioms: bend the elbow, hit the bottle . See drugs
  6. Slang. To exploit (another) by charging too much for something: fleece, overcharge. Slang: clip 1, gouge, nick, rip off, scalp, skin. Idioms: make someone pay through the nose, take someone for a ride , take someone to the cleaners . See honest
phrasal verb

soak in
To come as a realization: dawn on or upon , register, sink in. See knowledge
noun
Slang. A person who is habitually drunk: drunk, drunkard, inebriate, sot, tippler. Slang: boozehound, boozer, lush 2, rummy 1, souse, sponge, stiff. See drugs

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