Soak \Soak\, v. i.

1. To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.

2. To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.

3. To drink intemperately or gluttonously. [Slang]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Soak \Soak\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Soaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Soaking.]

[OE. soken, AS. socian to sioak, steep, fr. s?can, s?gan, to suck. See Suck.]

1. 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.

2. To drench; to wet thoroughly.

Their land shall be soaked with blood. --Isa. xxiv. 7.

3. To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.

4. To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through.

The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow. --Sir W. Scott.

5. Fig.: To absorb; to drain. [Obs.]

--Sir H. Wotton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)