soak – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of soak

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to soak
Participle: soaked
Gerund: soaking

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Isoak
yousoak
he;she;itsoaks
wesoak
yousoak
theysoak

Perfect

Ihave soaked
youhave soaked
he;she;ithas soaked
wehave soaked
youhave soaked
theyhave soaked

Past

Isoaked
yousoaked
he;she;itsoaked
wesoaked
yousoaked
theysoaked

Pluperfect

Ihad soaked
youhad soaked
he;she;ithad soaked
wehad soaked
youhad soaked
theyhad soaked

Future

Iwill soak
youwill soak
he;she;itwill soak
wewill soak
youwill soak
theywill soak

Future Perfect

Iwill have soaked
youwill have soaked
he;she;itwill have soaked
wewill have soaked
youwill have soaked
theywill have soaked

Subjunctive

Present

Isoak
yousoak
he;she;itsoak
wesoak
yousoak
theysoak

Perfect

Ihave soaked
youhave soaked
he;she;ithave soaked
wehave soaked
youhave soaked
theyhave soaked

Imperfect

Isoaked
yousoaked
he;she;itsoaked
wesoaked
yousoaked
theysoaked

Pluperfect

Ihad soaked
youhad soaked
he;she;ithad soaked
wehad soaked
youhad soaked
theyhad soaked

Conditional

Present

Iwould soak
youwould soak
he;she;itwould soak
wewould soak
youwould soak
theywould soak

Perfect

Iwould have soaked
youwould have soaked
he;she;itwould have soaked
wewould have soaked
youwould have soaked
theywould have soaked

Imperative

yousoak
weLet's soak
yousoak

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam soaking
youare soaking
he;she;itis soaking
weare soaking
youare soaking
theyare soaking

Perfect

Ihave been soaking
youhave been soaking
he;she;ithas been soaking
wehave been soaking
youhave been soaking
theyhave been soaking

Past

Iwas soaking
youwere soaking
he;she;itwas soaking
wewere soaking
youwere soaking
theywere soaking

Pluperfect

Ihad been soaking
youhad been soaking
he;she;ithad been soaking
wehad been soaking
youhad been soaking
theyhad been soaking

Future

Iwill be soaking
youwill be soaking
he;she;itwill be soaking
wewill be soaking
youwill be soaking
theywill be soaking

Future Perfect

Iwill have been soaking
youwill have been soaking
he;she;itwill have been soaking
wewill have been soaking
youwill have been soaking
theywill have been soaking

Conditional

Present

Iwould be soaking
youwould be soaking
he;she;itwould be soaking
wewould be soaking
youwould be soaking
theywould be soaking

Perfect

Iwould have been soaking
youwould have been soaking
he;she;itwould have been soaking
wewould have been soaking
youwould have been soaking
theywould have been soaking

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'soak'

abandon, abduct, abear, aberr, abject, abord, abort, abound, abraid, abray, abrook, abscind, abscond, absist, absorb, abstain, abstract, accend, accent, accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'soak'

boak, coak, oak, smoak, soap, soar, sock, sook, stoak, beak,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

drench
saturate, flood, douse, wet, immerse, drown, sop, immerge
permeate
penetrate, infiltrate, infuse, percolate
absorb
sop, mop, dry

Antonyms

absorb
exude, emit, eject, spew

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

From Middle English soken, from Old English socian (“to soak, steep”, literally “to cause to suck (up)”), from Proto-Germanic *sukōną (“to soak”), causative of Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (“to suck”). Cognate with Middle Dutch soken (“to cause to suck”). More at suck. See: Proto-Germanic '*sūkaną'.

Sample Sentences

  • I'm going to soak in the bath for a couple of hours.
  • Their land shall be soaked with blood. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 24:7:]
  • Soak the beans overnight before cooking.
  • The water soaked into my shoes and gave me wet feet.
  • The rivulet beneath […]soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow. [1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:]
  • A sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
  • I soaked up all the knowledge I could at university.
  • 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. [1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:]
  • It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot. […] Well, they got him in the same kind of jam, and soaked him to the tune of three hundred and eighty-six thousand. [1928, Upton Sinclair, Boston, New York, N.Y.: Albert & Charles Boni, page 337:]
  • Sure, if we own an aerospace contracting company, a five-thousand-acre sugar-beet farm, or a savings and loan with the president's son on the board of directors, we can soak Uncle Sucker for millions. [2015, P. J. O'Rourke, Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader:]
  • I think you’re totally right that there is a big constituency, especially now that the party has been transformed, of Republican- and populist-leaning Republican voters who would be fine with some soaking the rich in the context of a bigger budget deal. […] Just maintaining the changes to the state and local tax deduction that was, I think, one of the genuinely populist victories of the first Trump term. And I should say, it soaked me, it soaked the upper middle class in blue states. [2025 January 31, Ross Douthat, “Steve Bannon on ‘Broligarchs’ vs. Populism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
  • We should soak the kiln at cone 9 for half an hour.
  • That they will want a certaine sucking and soaking [1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:]