souse
1 of 3verb (1)
ˈsau̇s 
soused; sousing
transitive verb
1
: pickle
2
a
: to plunge in liquid : immerse
b
: drench, saturate
3
: to make drunk
intransitive verb
: to become immersed or drenched
souse
2 of 3noun
1
: something pickled
especially : seasoned and chopped pork trimmings, fish, or shellfish
2
: an act of sousing : wetting
3
a
: a habitual drunkard
b
: a drinking spree : binge
souse
3 of 3verb (2)
soused; sousing
intransitive verb
archaic : to swoop down : plunge
transitive verb
archaic : to swoop down on
Synonyms
Verb (1)
- bathe
- bedraggle
- douse
- dowse
- drench
- drown
- soak
- sodden
- sop
- wash
- water
- water-soak
- waterlog
- wet
- wet down
Noun
- alcoholic
- alkie [slang]
- alky
- boozehound
- boozer
- dipsomaniac
- drinker
- drunk
- drunkard
- inebriate
- juicehead [slang]
- juicer [slang]
- lush
- rummy
- soak
- soaker
- sot
- tippler
- toper
- tosspot
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Example Sentences
Noun an old souse who lumbered home with a full bottle of gin in him every night
Word History
Etymology
Verb (1)
Middle English, from Anglo-French suz, souce pickling juice, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German sulza brine, Old English sealt salt
Verb (2)
Middle English souce, noun, start of a bird's flight, alteration of sours, probably from Anglo-French surse source — more at source
First Known Use
Verb (1)
14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
Noun
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb (2)
1567, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense
souses 1 of 2
noun
as in alcoholics
a person who makes a habit of getting drunk an old souse who lumbered home with a full bottle of gin in him every night Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- alcoholics
- topers
- rummies
- sots
- inebriates
- drinkers
- tipplers
- drunkards
- soaks
- alkies
- drunks
- dipsomaniacs
- boozers
- tosspots
- juiceheads
- swillers
- boozehounds
- juicers
- soakers
- swiggers
- lushes
- winos
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- teetotallers
- nondrinkers
- abstainers
- teetotalers
- teetotalists
souses
2 of 2verb
1
as in wets
to make wet a passing car barreled through the puddle and soused us good Synonyms & Similar Words
- wets
- washes
- drowns
- floods
- waters
- drenches
- soaks
- rinses
- bathes
- bedraggles
- sops
- waterlogs
- dowses
- water-soaks
- flushes
- douses
- wets down
- dips
- showers
- soddens
- bedews
- laves
- drizzles
- sprinkles
- damps
- moistens
- splashes
- asperses
- swamps
- submerges
- mists
- deluges
- humidifies
- inundates
- hydrates
- sluices
- impregnates
- moisturizes
- ducks
- saturates
- sloshes
- overflows
- rewashes
- irrigates
- dunks
- rewets
- dampens
- hoses (down)
- rehydrates
- steeps
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- parches
- desiccates
- dries
- evaporates
- sears
- dehydrates
- dewaters
- scorches
- freeze-dries
- drip-dries
- dehumidifies
- wrings
2
as in dips
to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid repeatedly soused the tools in the tub to get the dirt off Synonyms & Similar Words
- dips
- ducks
- dunks
- dowses
- drowns
- sops
- douses
- immerses
- wets
- submerges
- submerses
- floods
- soaks
- moistens
- bathes
- drenches
- thrusts
- plunges
- steeps
- dives
3
as in soaks
to wet thoroughly with liquid firefighters soused the neighboring houses so that they wouldn't catch fire as well Synonyms & Similar Words
- soaks
- macerates
- drowns
- drenches
- impregnates
- saturates
- sops
- dips
- washes
- soddens
- waters
- steeps
- submerges
- presoaks
- marinates
- waterlogs
- immerses
- swamps
- water-soaks
- penetrates
- swills
- seethes
- inundates
- bathes
- permeates
- dowses
- infiltrates
- moistens
- hydrates
- douses
- humidifies
- damps
- dampens
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- dries
- empties
- drains
- sears
- wrings (out)
- dehydrates
- parches
- desiccates
- voids
- dehumidifies