| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | Slang. A person who is habitually drunk: drunk, drunkard, inebriate, sot, tippler. Slang : boozehound, boozer, lush2, rummy1, souse, sponge, stiff. See DRUGS. | | VERB: | 1. Informal. To take in and incorporate, especially mentally. Also used with up: absorb, assimilate, digest, imbibe, take up. See ACCEPT. 2. To take in (moisture or liquid). Also used with up: absorb, drink, imbibe, sop up, take up. See GIVE. 3. Informal. To take alcoholic liquor, especially excessively or habitually: drink, guzzle, imbibe, tipple. Informal : nip2. Slang : booze, lush2, tank up. Idioms: bend the elbow, hit the bottle . See DRUGS. 4. Slang. To exploit (another) by charging too much for something: fleece, overcharge. Slang : clip1, gouge, nick, rip off, scalp, skin. Idioms: make someone pay through the nose, take someone for a ride , take someone to the cleaners . See HONEST. 5. To saturate (something) with a liquid: steep2. Chemistry : infuse. See DRY. 6. To make thoroughly wet: douse, drench, saturate, sodden, sop, souse, wet. See DRY. | | PHRASAL VERB: | soak in To come as a realization: dawn on or (upon), register, sink in. See KNOWLEDGE.
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