Synonym: absorb, draw, engross, engulf, imbibe, immerse, plunge, sop up, steep, suck, suck up, take in, take up. Similar words: soak, soaked, soak in, soaking, break up, breakup, speak up, sneak up. Meaning: v. 1. take in, also metaphorically 2. engross (oneself) fully.
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31. There simply isn't enough money in the world to build enough roads to soak up that kind of demand.
32. Other ethnic groups also seem to have trooped to Azusa Street to soak up the new shower of blessing.
33. Yet, like other places, Utah has to turn to low-tech services to soak up its growing numbers of literate job-hunters.
34. Where fishermen once set out to sea, now travellers stop to soak up the sun which bakes the sandy shores.
35. Hartlepool collected a ￡40,000 sponge to soak up some of their debts, Darlington took in exchange their outstanding midfield player.
36. The more we soak up their way of looking at things, their method of understanding, the more we shall get.
37. She had lain with Maggie beside the swimming pool and had let her whole body soak up the sun.
38. They soak up all the resources,(www.Sentencedict.com) leaving little or nothing for experimentation or new approaches to new circumstances.
39. In a deluxe terrace suite, you can soak up the sights from your own outdoor Jacuzzi.
40. This is because the dark scales soak up the sunlight, to warm the butterfly.
41. They were trying to soak up some sun.
42. To soak up or dry with absorbent material.
43. Soak up some sun or daydream the day away.
44. Management tactics range from using bone charcoal to soak up the carcinogen and then dispose of it as toxic waste to chemically transforming hexavalent chromium to a more benign form.
45. NREL uses syrupy liquids which contain salty desiccants to soak up the humidity.
46. Of spill or leak : flood with water to polymerize. Soak up with an inert absorbent.
47. Or follow in the footsteps of Rob Roy and Walter Scott through the Trossachs to soak up "the scenery of a fairy dream"(sentencedict.com), as Scott described it.
48. Byron Bay famous not only for its position as Australias most easterly mainland point but also as the "alternate lifestyle" capital of Australia. Meet the locals, soak up the atmosphere.
49. At the time he had a Spanish visitor who scoffed at us eating our gazpacho, dipping bread into it to soak up the delicious juices.
50. This makes them net liabilities to the company because not only do they fail to contribute, but they soak up good people's time.
51. If you miss the call, your voicemail will soak up the action.
52. Also, no flame burning polyamide fiber. soak up quickly, melting into colloidal material, after cooling of the tough hard ball into brown, not easily broken, faint celery research smell.
53. Velamen A layer surrounding the aerial roots of epiphytic plants (e. g. orchids) which, due to the spongy nature of the cells, is able to soak up surface water.
54. Today, someone set off a stink bomb during a two hour exam. We all had to soak up the stench for the whole two hours. FML.
55. Chinese workers lay out absorbent material to soak up oil at Ganjingzi Bay, polluted by the oil spill in Dalianon July 26, 2010.
56. Because the explosives soak up the electrons that would emit the blue glow.
57. The plan marks a quick about-face for Washington policy-makers, who until recent days had been focusing on building an apparatus to soak up bad assets from banks.
58. Cooks love morels , which have a spongelike appearance, because of their nutty taste and extraordinary ability to soak up sauces.
59. Best practice is to spam sunder , and use HS in between to soak up excess rage.
60. The results show that the construction industry could soak up and adjust rural labor force to get employment in long-term.