SOAK Copy link • SOAKv. Transitively, macerare (to put a thing in water, in order to soften it, as flax, fish): aqua perfundere (to wet well with water, as corn): madefacere (general term, to make quite wet). To be soaked with rain, pluvia or imbre madefieri. Intransitively, madefieri: madere: madescere.