soak in


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soak

verb
1. To make thoroughly wet:
douse, drench, saturate, sodden, sop, souse, wet.
2. To saturate (something) with a liquid:
steep.
Chemistry: infuse.
3. To take in (moisture or liquid).Also used with up:
absorb, drink, imbibe, sop up, take up.
4. Informal. To take in and incorporate, especially mentally.Also used with up:
absorb, assimilate, digest, imbibe, take up.
5. Informal. To take alcoholic liquor, especially excessively or habitually:
drink, guzzle, imbibe, tipple.
Informal: nip.
Slang: booze, lush, tank up.
Idioms: bend the elbow, hit the bottle .
6. Slang. To exploit (another) by charging too much for something:
fleece, overcharge.
Slang: clip, gouge, nick, rip off, scalp, skin.
Idioms: make someone pay through the nose, take someone for a ride , take someone to the cleaners .
phrasal verb
soak in
To come as a realization:
dawn on (or upon), register, sink in.
noun
Slang. A person who is habitually drunk:
drunk, drunkard, inebriate, sot, tippler.
Slang: boozehound, boozer, lush, rummy, souse, sponge, stiff.
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Translations

w>soak in

vi (stain, dye etc) → einziehen; to leave something to soak in → etw einziehen lassen
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