What is "soak up"

Usage examples of "soak up".

We'd need to fire at least eighteen salvos to soak up their defensive capability and be certain of achieving a hit.

What she knew for sure was that she had a Cardigan Welsh Corgi in her dog room, and that even the generous pile of towels accruing beside her wouldn't do anything but soak up dirty water, leaving the grit in his coat and a bath the only recourse.

But today even the Pacific Ocean can't soak up all the crud they dump into it.

On your brief little trip you'll soak up almost as many REMs as on a Hohmann mission twice the duration, which would earn you five hundred days on Mars.

If there was cloud, it would soak up and diffuse the illumination, and he would see the shape of the city as a huge, amorphous bowl of light.

Maybe he brought me in here as a kind of diversion, to soak up Hartle's fire.

He closed his eyes and waited, trying to soak up as much heat as possible before they took him away.

The ground wasn't able to soak up that enormous amount of water, and a small stream began to trickle through the shed.

You don't want to be up on the northern border when the snow flies, and Massilia is as good a place as any to lay by and soak up the wine.

White Court vamps don't soak up gunshots as well as Red Court vampires do, or ignore them like the Black Court, but they can get over them in a hurry.