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1. Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
   "souse water on his hot face"
   - drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop
    
2. Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
   "souse the garment into the cleaning solution"
   - dunk, dip, plunge, douse
    
3. Become drunk or drink excessively
   - soak, inebriate, hit it up
    
4. Cook in a marinade
   "souse herring"

1. A person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
   - alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush [N. Amer], soaker, dipso, alkie
    
2. Pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
    
3. The act of making something completely wet
   "he gave it a good souse"
   - drenching, soaking, sousing

Derived forms: soused, sousing, souses

Type of: booze, cook, drink, drunk, drunkard, fuddle, immerse, inebriate, plunge, rummy, sausage, sot, tosspot, wet, wetting, wino, wurst

Encyclopedia: Souse