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Word: Soaked

Part of Speech: Adjective

Basic Definition: The word "soaked" means very wet or drenched with water or another liquid. It can also mean very drunk.

Usage Instructions:

• "Soaked" is commonly used to describe something or someone that is completely wet. For example, if you get caught in the rain without an umbrella, you could say you are soaked.
• In a more informal context, it can describe a person who has consumed a lot of alcohol and is very drunk.

Examples:

1. Water Context: "After playing in the rain, my clothes were soaked."
2. Drunk Context: "He was so soaked at the party last night that he could barely stand."

Advanced Usage:

• You can use "soaked" in different tenses. For example:
  • Present: "I am soaked."
  • Past: "I was soaked when I got home."
  • Future: "I will be soaked if it rains tomorrow."

Word Variants:

• Soak (verb): To make something very wet by immersing it in liquid.
  • Example: "I need to soak the beans before cooking them."
• Soaking (noun/adjective): The act of getting very wet or the state of being wet.
  • Example: "We had a soaking wet day at the beach."

Different Meanings:

1. Literal Meaning: Completely wet with water or another liquid.
2. Figurative Meaning: Very drunk.

Synonyms:

• For water context: drenched, saturated, wet, soaked through.
• For drunk context: intoxicated, inebriated, plastered, wasted.

Idioms:

• "Soaked to the bone": This means completely wet all the way through.
  • Example: "After the storm, I was soaked to the bone."

Phrasal Verbs:

• Soak up: To absorb or take in.
  • Example: "The sponge will soak up all the water."

Summary:

"Soaked" is an adjective that means very wet or very drunk. You can use it in everyday conversation to describe weather conditions or someone's state after a party.

Academic

Adjective

1. very drunk

Synonyms

• besotted
• blind drunk
• blotto
• crocked
• cockeyed
• fuddled
• loaded
• pie-eyed
• pissed
• pixilated
• plastered
• slopped
• sloshed
• smashed