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
soused 1 of 2
adjective
1
as in drunk
being under the influence of alcohol he stumbled off to bed, completely soused as usual Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- drunk
- drunken
- fried
- wet
- impaired
- plastered
- inebriated
- tipsy
- wasted
- sloshed
- gassed
- loaded
- pickled
- bombed
- blotto
- stewed
- intoxicated
- lit
- sozzled
- blind
- inebriate
- stoned
- boozy
- besotted
- juiced
- smashed
- hammered
- pie-eyed
- potted
- alcoholic
- squiffy
- oiled
- canned
- crocked
- tanked
- blitzed
- cockeyed
- stiff
- ripped
- tiddly
- sottish
- stinking
- looped
- blasted
- under the influence
- squiffed
- high
- lit up
- tight
- wiped out
- three sheets to the wind
- beery
- under the weather
- three sheets in the wind
- maudlin
- in the bag
- in one's cups
- befuddled
- stupefied
- debauched
- dissolute
- dopey
- dissipated
- strung out
- bibulous
- crapulous
- rocky
- dopy
- bleary-eyed
- dipsomaniacal
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- sober
- dry
- straight
- temperate
- abstemious
- steady
- teetotal
- cool
- abstinent
- level
- clearheaded
2
as in bathed
containing, covered with, or thoroughly penetrated by water peeled off his soused socks and instantly felt much more comfortable Synonyms & Similar Words
- bathed
- saturated
- washed
- dripping
- saturate
- soaked
- wet
- drenched
- doused
- flooded
- watered
- sodden
- soaking
- bedraggled
- waterlogged
- drowned
- flushed
- sopping
- awash
- dowsed
- soggy
- moist
- rinsed
- logged
- submerged
- splashed
- damp
- water-soaked
- watery
- dipped
- overflowed
- inundated
- soppy
- dunked
- deluged
- swamped
- hydrated
- sluiced
- steeped
- laved
- irrigated
- aqueous
- humid
- clammy
- dank
- sloppy
- dampish
- miry
- boggy
- wettish
- squashy
- seepy
- semimoist
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- dry
- unwatered
- arid
- waterless
- dehydrated
- baked
- watertight
- waterproof
- bone-dry
- parched
- sunbaked
- thirsty
- hyperarid
- ultradry
- wrung
- droughty
- sere
- sear
- freeze-dried
- water-resistant
- water-repellent
soused
2 of 2verb
1
as in wet
to make wet a passing car barreled through the puddle and soused us good Synonyms & Similar Words
- wet
- drowned
- washed
- wetted
- flooded
- watered
- bedraggled
- soaked
- drenched
- rinsed
- bathed
- waterlogged
- doused
- flushed
- sopped
- submerged
- dowsed
- damped
- dipped
- sprinkled
- moistened
- splashed
- wet down
- water-soaked
- showered
- soddened
- hydrated
- sloshed
- saturated
- bedewed
- wetted down
- misted
- inundated
- deluged
- drizzled
- sluiced
- dampened
- impregnated
- swamped
- humidified
- laved
- moisturized
- irrigated
- overflowed
- dunked
- aspersed
- steeped
- ducked
- rehydrated
- rewashed
- hosed (down)
- rewetted
- rewet
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- dried
- desiccated
- dehydrated
- parched
- seared
- evaporated
- scorched
- dewatered
- wrung
- freeze-dried
- dehumidified
- drip-dried
2
as in dipped
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
- dipped
- immersed
- dunked
- drowned
- doused
- ducked
- submerged
- dowsed
- soaked
- submersed
- bathed
- wet
- sopped
- moistened
- drenched
- wetted
- steeped
- flooded
- plunged
- dove
- thrust
- dived
3
as in soaked
to wet thoroughly with liquid firefighters soused the neighboring houses so that they wouldn't catch fire as well Synonyms & Similar Words
- soaked
- drowned
- drenched
- saturated
- macerated
- impregnated
- immersed
- washed
- dipped
- submerged
- steeped
- sopped
- marinated
- waterlogged
- soddened
- bathed
- watered
- swilled
- doused
- penetrated
- moistened
- hydrated
- inundated
- swamped
- seethed
- dowsed
- water-soaked
- permeated
- infiltrated
- presoaked
- damped
- dampened
- humidified
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- dried
- parched
- drained
- dehydrated
- emptied
- desiccated
- wrung (out)
- seared
- voided
- dehumidified