1. Very wet, esp. with rainwater
   "We arrived home soaked after getting caught in the downpour";
   - drenched
    
2. [informal] Very drunk
   "I had travelling money and got soaked in the bar downstairs";
   - besotted [archaic], blind drunk [informal], blotto [informal], crocked [N. Amer, informal], cockeyed [informal], fuddled [informal], loaded [N. Amer, informal], pie-eyed [informal], pissed [Brit, informal], pixilated [informal], plastered [informal], sloshed [informal], smashed [informal], soused [informal], sozzled [informal], stiff [informal], tight [informal], wet [informal], drunk, bombed [informal], three sheets to the wind [informal], off one's face [Brit, informal], pickled [informal], stinko [informal], fried [N. Amer, informal], legless [Brit, informal], blootered [UK, dialect], paralytic [Brit, informal], stewed [informal], liquored up [N. Amer], swacked [N. Amer, informal], steaming [informal], trashed [informal], trolleyed [Brit, informal], bladdered [Brit, informal], mullered [Brit, informal], trollied [Brit, informal], tanked up [informal], screwed [informal], lit up [slang], wasted [informal], out of it [Brit, informal], hammered [informal], blitzed [informal], stonkered [Austral, NZ, informal], juiced [N. Amer, informal], wrecked [Brit, informal], bevvied [Brit, informal], pixillated, half-seas-over [Brit, informal]

1. Submerge in a liquid
   "I soaked in the hot tub for an hour"
    
2. Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
   "The rain soaked us completely";
   - drench, douse, dowse, sop, souse
    
3. Fill, soak, or imbue totally
   "soak the bandage with disinfectant";
   - imbue
    
4. Heat a metal prior to working it
   "The blacksmith soaked the iron in the forge before shaping it"
    
5. Make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)
   "The strong punch soaked the party guests";
   - intoxicate, inebriate
    
6. Become drunk or drink excessively
   "They soaked themselves at the New Year's party";
   - souse, inebriate
    
7. [informal] Charge an excessive or unfair price
   "The contractor soaked us for unnecessary repairs";
   - overcharge, surcharge, fleece [informal], pluck [informal], rob, skin [informal], rip off [informal], gouge [informal]

See also: drunk, gone, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped [informal], skunked [informal]

Type of: affect, booze [informal], cheat, chisel [informal], drink, fuddle, heat, heat up, hit the bottle [informal], immerse, impregnate, plunge, rip off [informal], saturate, wet

Encyclopedia: Soaked