soak up
Idioms-
Absorb, take in, as in I lay there, soaking up the sun , or She often went to hear poets read their work, soaking up every word . This usage, alluding to absorbing a liquid, dates from the mid-1500s.
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Drink to excess, as in She can really soak up her beer .
Example Sentences
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Carville, resigned to the idea getting a ticket was out of the question, had taken his family to do "the second-best thing" - "to go down town and soak up some of the atmosphere".
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
More than 66,000 people filled Lumen Field in Seattle’s SoDo district, but thousands more simply stood in the streets surrounding the stadium to soak up the energy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Thousands of new “vocational schools” sprung up to soak up the money, many of them bogus.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
But it has for years been unable to replicate the retail-banking returns of peers with vast nationwide networks that soak up supercheap checking account deposits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
She would soak up their trills and scales, their perfect pitches.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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