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- adjective obsolete
soaked ,saturated ;intoxicated
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Examples
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I've just soaken [sic] in the footage in the back of my mind.
Mark Lerner on Stan Kasten, Stephen Strasburg and the Phillies Adam Kilgore 2010
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I'm like … No Effin way am I going down into the subway where I know damn well it will be like 95 degrees .. mind you everybody is already soaken wet from sweat.
Citizens For Batman Unite - New York and Chicago Meet-Ups! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Their clothes were soaken, their hair dank; their white faces, dimly discernible, were clammy and cold.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Ambrose Bierce 1878
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Nature's untaught children dance in wood and glade, stimulated of leg by the sunshine with which they are soaken top full -- the same quickening emanation that inspires the growing tree and upheaves the hill.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878
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Knapsacks, canteens, haversacks distended with soaken and swollen biscuits, gaping to disgorge, blankets beaten into the soil by the rain, rifles with bent barrels or splintered stocks, waist-belts, hats and the omnipresent sardine-box -- all the wretched debris of the battle still littered the spongy earth as far as one could see, in every direction.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Ambrose Bierce 1878
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In the softened earth the wheels of cannon and ammunition wagons cut deep, ragged furrows, and movements of infantry seemed impeded by the mud that clung to the soldiers 'feet as, with soaken garments and rifles imperfectly protected by capes of overcoats they went dragging in sinuous lines hither and thither through dripping forest and flooded field.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Ambrose Bierce 1878
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Because, some thousands of years ago, when we wore other skins than our own and sat enthroned upon our haunches, tearing tangles of tendons from raw bones with our teeth, the dog ministered purveyorwise to our savage needs, we go on cherishing him to this day, when his only function is to lie sun-soaken on a door mat and insult us as we pass in and out, enamored of his fat superfluity.
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Ambrose Bierce 1878
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A man, hatless, seated flat upon the paving stones, held the broken, bleeding body against his breast, kissing the mangled cheeks and streaming mouth through tangles of wet hair, his own features indistinguishably crimson with the blood that half-strangled him and ran in rills from his soaken beard.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Ambrose Bierce 1878
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In the morning my party set forward over the soaken prairie under a cloudless sky intensely blue.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Ambrose Bierce 1878
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"A Beelzebub; he spake as bigly and fiercely as a soaken yeoman at an election feast, -- this obedient and conducible youth!"
Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk Walter Savage Landor 1819
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