soup
(suːp )
Word forms: soups , souping, souped
1. variable noun A1
Soup is liquid food made by boiling meat, fish, or vegetables in water.
...home-made chicken soup.
Synonyms: broth, bisque, chowder, consommé
2. in the soup phrase [PHRASE after verb, verb-link PHRASE]
If you say that someone is in the soup, you mean they are in trouble. [journalism, informal]
She has a knack of landing herself right in the soup.
Phrasal verbs:
soup up
phrasal verb
To soup up something such as a car engine means to make it more powerful. To soup up something such as a piece of music or writing means to make it more interesting and exciting.
...his String Quartet finale, souped up for massed strings. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)]
souped-up adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
...a souped-up Peugeot 205.
...a souped-up version of tennis.
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Idioms:
in the soup
in trouble
She has a knack of landing herself right in the soup.
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Collocations:
soup stock thicken soup thin soup watery soup
Cut the potatoes into pieces and add them to the soup stock after the meat was softened.
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Some consist of a packet of dry soup stock.
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Dried anchovies, along with kelp, form the basis of common soup stocks.
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They may be reconstituted and stir-fried, grated and used to thicken soup, or processed to extract starch.
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Stale bread could be used to make bread puddings, and bread crumbs served to thicken soups, stews, and sauces.
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Other ingredients commonly used to thicken soups and broths include rice, lentils, flour, and grains; many popular soups also include carrots and potatoes.
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Cereal grains (oatmeal, couscous, farina, etc.) are used to thicken soups.
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For those who have tasted the sweetness of prayer, the familiar repetitions of the praise chorus can seem like very thin soup.
Christianity Today
They were fed dried toast and thin soup.
The Sun
Remember, bread or croutons make a thin soup go further.
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Finally, in the evening, came a bowl of thin soup with a small piece of bread.
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For example, some diners may order clear, thin soups and others may order thick, creamy soups.
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And he was chained and fed just two bowls of watery soup for the whole of his four-day ordeal.
The Sun
The centre will never serve watery soup and asks people not to wear shirts with wide stripes because it never wants to trigger unwanted remembrance.
Times, Sunday Times
Add a little more boiling water if the mixture starts to look dry, but don't add too much because you don't want a watery soup.
Times, Sunday Times
They went weeks at a time without hot water, savoured the fresh food when it was offered, and subsided on watery soup and stale bread when they had to.
Times, Sunday Times
The inmates' daily diet was two litres of watery soup, 125g of bread and some jam.
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Translations:
Chinese: 汤
Japanese: スープ
- legal advice
- legal aid
- legal analyst
- legal apparatus
- legal arena
- legal argument
- legal assistance
- legal assistant
- legal authority
- legal avenues
- legal backing
- legal barrier
- legal basis
- legal battle
- legal bill
- legal brief
- legal case
- legal challenge
- legal claim
- legal code
- legal commentator
- legal compliance
- legal complications
- legal consequence
- legal constraints