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Immerge vs Soak - What's the difference?

immerge | soak |

As verbs the difference between immerge and soak

is that immerge is while soak is (label) to be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.

As an adjective immerge

is immersed.

As a noun soak is

an immersion in water etc.

immerge

English

Verb

(immerg)
  • To plunge into, under, or within anything, especially a fluid; to dip; to immerse.
  • * Boyle
  • We took lukewarm water, and in it immerged a quantity of the leaves of senna.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • Their souls are immerged in matter.
  • To disappear by entering into any medium, as a star into the light of the sun.
  • (Webster 1913) ----

    soak

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
  • * Bible, (w) xxiv. 7
  • Their land shall be soaked with blood.
  • (label) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
  • (label) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
  • * Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
  • The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow.
  • (label) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up )
  • * {{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
  • To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
  • (label) To heat a metal before shaping it.
  • To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
  • (label) To absorb; to drain.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An immersion in water etc.
  • * "After the climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath."
  • (slang, British) A drunkard.
  • (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
  • * 1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber & Faber 2003, p. 38:
  • I set off early to walk along the Melbourne Road where, one of the punters had told me, there was a soak with plenty of frogs in it.

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