Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To soak in advance.

    to presoak lentils before cooking

  2. (transitive)To soak laundry in cold water prior to washing, sometimes with the addition of a biological or other preparation.

Translations

2 languages

Forms

presoaks, presoaking, presoaked, presoaked
Base formpresoak · to presoak
3rd person singularpresoaks
Present participlepresoaking
Past simplepresoaked
Past participlepresoaked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypresoak
he, she, itpresoaks

Past simpleLesson

all personspresoaked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave presoaked
he, she, ithas presoaked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill presoak

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
presidentB1presidentialB2pressB1pressureA2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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