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soakt

soakt is the obsolete form of soaked.

soakt is the simple past and past participle of soak.

Meaning of soaked

Adjective

soaked (comparative more soaked, superlative most soaked)

  1. Drenched with water, or other liquid.
  2. (UK, slang) Very drunk; inebriated.
  3. (US, slang) Punched; beaten up; physically assaulted.

Meaning of soak

Verb

soak (third-person singular simple present soaks, present participle soaking, simple past and past participle soaked)

  1. (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
    • I'm going to soak in the bath for a couple of hours.
  2. (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
    • Soak the beans overnight before cooking.
  3. (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
    • The water soaked into my shoes and gave me wet feet.
    Synonyms:
    imbue
  4. (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
    • A sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
  5. (figuratively, transitive) To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.
    • It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot. […] Well, they got him in the same kind of jam, and soaked him to the tune of three hundred and eighty-six thousand.1928, Upton Sinclair, Boston, New York, N.Y.: Albert & Charles Boni, page 337
    Synonyms:
    fleece
  6. (dated, slang) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.

See all 15 meanings of soak

Forms of soakt

comparativemore soakt
superlativemost soakt

Questions about soakt

What is soakt the obsolete form of?
Soakt is the obsolete form of soaked.

Words near soakt in the dictionary

  1. soakings
  2. soaks
  3. soaks away
  4. soaks in
  5. soaks up
  6. soakt
  7. soaky
  8. soal
  9. soals
  10. soam
  11. Soames

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soakt (page history and authors); soaked (page history and authors); soak (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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