Soak vs Plunge - What's the difference?

In intransitive terms the difference between soak and plunge

is that soak is to penetrate or permeate by saturation while plunge is to pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.

In transitive terms the difference between soak and plunge

is that soak is to allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up while plunge is to thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.

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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* * * English ergative verbs

plunge

English

Noun

(en noun)

the act of plunging or submerging

a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)

to take the water with a plunge

plunge in the sea

(figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse

(slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation

(obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty

Verb

(plung)

(label) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.

To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.

To baptize by immersion.

(label) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge one's self.

To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:

(label) To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.

* (Joseph Hall) (1574-1656)

some wild colt, which flings and plunges

To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.

To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).

* (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)

Plunged and gravelled with three lines of Seneca.

To overwhelm, overpower.

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* * English ergative verbs