souse meaning

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souse (verb): cover with liquid; pour liquid onto.

souse has 7 meanings in this dictionary, as verb and noun.

souse as a verb

  1. cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
    • souse water on his hot face

    Synonyms: drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop

    Type of: wet

    Kinds: brine, bedraggle, bate, ret, sluice

    Related forms: sousing

  2. immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
    • dip the garment into the cleaning solution
    • dip the brush into the paint

    Synonyms: dunk, dip, plunge, douse

    Type of: immerse

    Kinds: sop, dip, dabble

  3. become drunk or drink excessively

    Synonyms: soak, inebriate, hit it up

    Type of: hit the bottle

  4. cook in a marinade
    • souse herring

    Type of: cook

souse as a noun

  1. a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually

    Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker

    Type of: drunkard

  2. pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled

    Type of: sausage

  3. the act of making something completely wet
    • he gave it a good drenching

    Synonyms: drenching, soaking, sousing

    Type of: wetting

Word lists: words starting with SO · words ending in SE · 5-letter words

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