Usually means: Absorbs liquid over time thoroughly.
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  1. soaks: Merriam-Webster
  2. soaks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. soaks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Soaks, soaks: Wordnik
  5. soaks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. soaks: Wiktionary
  7. soaks: Dictionary.com
  8. soaks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. soaks: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. soaks: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. soaks: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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  1. soaks: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (soak)

verb:  (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
verb:  (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
verb:  (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
verb:  (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
verb:  (originally US slang, figurative, transitive) To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.
verb:  (slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
verb:  (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
verb:  (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
verb:  (figurative, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
verb:  (slang, chiefly Mormonism) To engage in penetrative sex without hip thrusting.
verb:  (transitive) (slang, boxing) To hit or strike.
noun:  An immersion in water etc.
noun:  (slang, British) A drunkard.
noun:  (slang) A carouse; a drinking session.
noun:  (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
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From "Master of the House" by Claude-Michel Schönberg:

My band of soaks
My den of dissolutes
My dirty jokes
My always pissed-as-newts

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