Inebriate vs Soak - What's the difference?
inebriate | soak |
A person who is intoxicated, especially one who is habitually drunk.
* 1889 , , Driven From Home , ch. 18:
To cause to be drunk; to intoxicate.
(figurative) To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate, elate or stupefy as if by spirituous drink.
* Macaulay
To become drunk.
intoxicated; drunk
* Udall
(label) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
* Bible, (w) xxiv. 7
(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)
(label) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up )
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, chapter=4, title= 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.
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:
As nouns the difference between inebriate and soak
is that inebriate is a person who is intoxicated, especially one who is habitually drunk while soak is an immersion in water etc.As verbs the difference between inebriate and soak
is that inebriate is to cause to be drunk; to intoxicate while soak is (label) to be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.As an adjective inebriate
is intoxicated; drunk.inebriate
English
Noun
(en noun)- As he walked along, the inebriate , whose gait was at first unsteady, recovered his equilibrium and required less help.
Synonyms
* drunkardVerb
(inebriat)- The inebriating effect of popular applause.
- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* intoxicateDerived terms
* inebriacy * inebriant * inebriation * inebriative * inebriety * inebriism * inebriousAdjective
(en adjective)- Thus spake Peter, as a man inebriate and made drunken with the sweetness of this vision, not knowing what he said.
soak
English
Verb
(en verb)- Their land shall be soaked with blood.
- The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow.
F. E. Penny
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.}}
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
