Soak

1. v. i. To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
2. v. t. To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.
3. v. t. To drench; to wet thoroughly.
4. v. t. To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
5. v. t. To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; — often with through.
6. v. t. Fig.: To absorb; to drain.
7. v. i. To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.
8. v. i. To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.