Definition of Soaken

1. soak [v] - See also: soak

Lexicographical Neighbors of Soaken

so to say
so to speak
so what
soak
soak the runner
soak through
soak up
soakage
soakages
soakaway
soakaways
soakcrust
soaked
soaked to the bone
soaked to the skin
soaken (current term)
soaker
soakers
soaking
soaking up
soaking wet
soakingly
soakings
soaks
soakt
soal
soals
soam
soams
soap

Literary usage of Soaken

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"Teel-SOaken [tee-lsoa-kn], adj. tail-soaked; a term applied to an affection of heifers, in which the lowest joint of the tail becomes loosened and softened, ..."

2. Eros: The Development of the Sex Relation Through the Ages by Emil Lucka (1915)
"... As prostrate I was lying, With dear love's fiery token Swift from the archer flying; Wounded, with sweet pain soaken, Peace became war—and dying, ..."

3. Eros: The Development of the Sex Relation Through the Ages by Emil Lucka (1915)
"... As prostrate I was lying, With dear love's fiery token Swift from the archer flying; Wounded, with sweet pain soaken, Peace became war—and dying, ..."

4. The Step-mother: A Tale by George Payne Rainsford James (1846)
"... between eight and nine, and he had hastened up from Long- soaken without loss of time ; but he had spent nearly half an hour with the ..."

5. Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1848)
"... or of plank, it appears to me that it would be in the form of a mast that fir timber would be most injured by being water- soaken, since even as a beam, ..."

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