SOAKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soaked mean? 

• SOAKED (adjective)
  The adjective SOAKED has 1 sense:

1. very drunk

  Familiarity information: SOAKED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOAKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very drunk

Synonyms:

plastered; wet; tight; stiff; squiffy; sozzled; soused; soaked; smashed; sloshed; slopped; besotted; pixilated; pissed; pie-eyed; loaded; fuddled; crocked; cockeyed; blotto; blind drunk

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))

 Context examples 

Well, a great deal must have soaked through, must it not?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A body lay within, its head all wreathed in cotton-wool, which had been soaked in the narcotic.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We're soaked in general culture, and if our daddies went broke to-day, we'd be falling down to-morrow on teachers' examinations.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I knew the kind, so thick and so close of texture that it could resist the rain and not be soaked through after hours of wetting.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

One Eye scooped out mouthfuls of the blood-soaked snow, and chewed and tasted and swallowed.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Parboiling rice in-the-husk is the traditional method by which rough rice is soaked in water and then partially cooked to nutritionally improve it and make it easier to process or store.

(Parboiling husked rice reduces arsenic content, SciDev.Net)

He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin shoes and a bride’s wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked in water.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the other hand, since the planets are so close to the star, they have soaked up billions of years of high-energy radiation, which could have boiled off atmospheres and large amounts of water.

(TRAPPIST-1 is Older Than Our Solar System, NASA/JPL)

Mr. Rochester held the candle over him; I recognised in his pale and seemingly lifeless face—the stranger, Mason: I saw too that his linen on one side, and one arm, was almost soaked in blood.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The thicket stretched down from the top of one of the sandy knolls, spreading and growing taller as it went, until it reached the margin of the broad, reedy fen, through which the nearest of the little rivers soaked its way into the anchorage.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)