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SOAKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very drunk
Synonyms:
wet; tight; stiff; squiffy; sozzled; soused; soaked; smashed; sloshed; slopped; plastered; pixilated; pissed; pie-eyed; loaded; fuddled; crocked; cockeyed; blotto; blind drunk; besotted
Classified under:
Similar:
drunk; gone; inebriated; intoxicated; ripped (stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol))
Domain usage:
argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb soak
Context examples:
The wood had been soaked in oil, for in an instant it was ablaze, and a long, hissing, yellow flame licked over the heads of the defenders, and drove them further up to the first floor of the keep.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was soaked with sleep, and perforce he must now stay awake and endure the white glare of life.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Martin must be soaked with it, Ruth concluded, if that awful woman washed frequently.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
For weeks it had been a very dull and sombre world; but now, with nearly all debts paid, three dollars jingling in his pocket, and in his mind the consciousness of success, the sun shone bright and warm, and even a rain-squall that soaked unprepared pedestrians seemed a merry happening to him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the wash-stand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
