BP boats laid yellow and orange boom to corral the oil for cleanup, white boom to soak it up.
To marinate means to soak food, often meat or fish, in a blend of liquids such as oil.
For large stains, you may want to soak the garment overnight in a solution of 3 parts vinegar to 1 part cold water before washing.
Rather than stay at home with wet towels over our heads, we headed to the lake to sit in the shade and soak in the cool water of Kulkwitzer, an old mine turned into a lake.
If you air your quilt on such a wet day, it'll soak up the moisture.
A long soak in the bath during the colder months could hold some unexpected dangers, a Japanese study has found.
He wanders around, seeing the sights, occasionally stopping at a quaint pub to soak up the local culture, chat with the locals, and have a pint of stout.
Every 10 days or so, clean your filter equal parts white vinegar and warm water. Let the filter soak in the solution for an hour, then simply squeeze it dry before using.
Bring a book or some schoolwork, sit down, and soak up the environment.
The newspaper will soak up and hold moisture from rain or snow-covered boots and protect your floors.
Management tactics range from using bone charcoal to soak up the carcinogen and then dispose of it as toxic waste to chemically transforming hexavalent chromium to a more benign form.
A long soak in the bath would probably finish off your relationship.
To make your own bay rum aftershave, you can soak two to four cups of bay leaves in enough rum to cover them.
At other times (before bed, for example), soak the sore tendon in hot water.
Multi-purpose travel towels packed like pills. Simply pop one out, soak with a little water and the pill instantly transforms into a sturdy towel.
To obtain one ounce of Tyrian purple dye, she had her servants soak 20, 000 Purpura snails for 10 days.
So give them a soak, a scrub, a bit of moisture, and a dash of color.
You can shower, but most surgeons prefer that you do not soak in a tub for at least a week or more after surgery.
To soak(food) in such a mixture; marinate.
There's a simple reason for inverting your sushi: the molded rice base will disintegrate if dipped directly into soy sauce. The rice will also soak up too much sauce, ruining the flavor balance.
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