Dan soaked the stain out of his shirt and then washed it.
•Dan soaked out the stain.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
soak something out — ˌsoak sthˈoff/ˈout derived to remove sth by leaving it in water Main entry: ↑soakderived … Useful english dictionary
soak something off — ˌsoak sthˈoff/ˈout derived to remove sth by leaving it in water Main entry: ↑soakderived … Useful english dictionary
soak — soak1 S3 [səuk US souk] v [: Old English; Origin: socian] 1.) [I and T] if you soak something, or if you let it soak, you keep it covered with a liquid for a period of time, especially in order to make it softer or easier to clean ▪ Soak the… … Dictionary of contemporary English
soak — 1 verb 1 (I, T) if you soak something or let it soak, you keep it covered with a liquid for a period of time, especially in order to make it softer or easier to clean: Soak the beans overnight. | leave sth to soak: Just leave the dishes to soak;… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
soak — vb Soak, saturate, drench, steep, impregnate, sop, waterlog can mean to permeate or be permeated with or as if with water. Soak suggests immersion in a liquid so that the substance absorbs the moisture and usually becomes thoroughly wetted,… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
soak — [sōk] vt. [ME soken < OE socian < base of sucan: see SUCK] 1. to make thoroughly wet; drench or saturate [soaked to the skin by the rain] 2. to submerge or keep in a liquid, as for thorough wetting, softening, for hydrotherapy, etc. 3. a)… … English World dictionary
soak — I. verb Etymology: Middle English soken, from Old English socian; akin to Old English sūcan to suck Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. to lie immersed in liquid (as water) ; become saturated by or as if by immersion 2. a. to enter or… … New Collegiate Dictionary
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dip — vb 1 Dip, immerse, submerge, duck, souse, dunk are comparable when meaning to plunge a person or thing into or as if into liquid. Dip implies a momentary or partial plunging into a liquid or a slight or cursory entrance into a subject {the priest … New Dictionary of Synonyms
squirt´er — squirt «skwurt», verb, noun. –v.t. 1. to force out (liquid) through a narrow opening: »to squirt water through a tube. 2. to wet or soak (something) by shooting liquid in a stream: »An elephant squirted me with his trunk. –v.i. to come out in a… … Useful english dictionary
blot — 1. noun 1) an ink blot Syn: spot, dot, mark, blotch, smudge, patch, dab; informal splotch 2) the only blot on a clean campaign Syn: blemish, taint, stain, blight, flaw … Thesaurus of popular words
