ppl. a. [f. SOAK v. + -ED1.]
1. transf. Dull, lacking in animation.
1600. Hosp. Incurable Fooles, 19. Melancholike persons of this kinde, haue pale faces, soaked and hollow eies.
2. Steeped, macerated; saturated, drenched.
Also as second element in rain-, water-soaked, etc.
1829. Chapters Phys. Sci., 197. If there be brought into contact two wetted or soaked bodies.
1841. Dickens, Barn. Rudge, viii. Is it soaked gunpowder, or blazing oil?
1879. Proctor, Pleas. Ways Sc., xvii. 368. The soaked slopes of great hills give way.
