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soak

/soʊk/ verbe B2

En français : tremper, faire tremper, immerger, éponger

  1. To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it. (intransitive) · I'm going to soak in the bath for a couple of hours.
  2. To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation. (transitive) · Soak the beans overnight before cooking.
  3. To penetrate or permeate by saturation. (intransitive) · The water soaked into my shoes and gave me wet feet.
  4. To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up) (transitive) · A sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.· I soaked up all the knowledge I could at university.
  5. To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money. (figuratively, transitive)
  6. To drink intemperately or gluttonously. (dated, slang)
  7. To heat (a metal) before shaping it. (transitive)
  8. To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time. (transitive) · We should soak the kiln at cone 9 for half an hour.

He/she/it soaks · Prétérit soaked · Participe passé soaked · Forme en -ing soaking

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Dans la bibliothèque

A LAMP, soaked with too much oil and flaring brightly, boasted that it gave more light than the sun.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 48 · B2
A FARMER, who bore a grudge against a Fox for robbing his poultry yard, caught him at last, and being determined to take an ample revenge, tied some rope well soaked in oil to his tail, and set it on fire.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 52 · B2
Ali had, indeed, given proof of this; for, approaching the animals, who had been got upon their legs with considerable difficulty, he rubbed their foreheads and nostrils with a sponge soaked in aromatic vinegar, and wiped off the sweat and foam that covered their mouths.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 499 · C1
It was in this costume, and bringing back to Jacopo the shirt and trousers he had lent him, that Edmond reappeared before the captain of the lugger, who had made him tell his story over and over again before he could believe him, or recognize in the neat and trim sailor the man with thick and matted beard, hair tangled with seaweed, and body soaking in seabrine, whom he had picked up naked and nearly drowned.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 237 · C1

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