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.

Verb

(en verb)

To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation.

To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.

To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.

To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; — said especially of sound; usually in the form "to drown out".

* Sir J. Davies

most men being in sensual pleasures drowned

* Addison

My private voice is drowned amid the senate.

To lose, make hard to find or unnoticeable in an abundant mass.

''The CIA gathers so much information that the actual answers it should seek are often drowned in the incessant flood of reports, recordings, satellite images etc.