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1. Very drunk
   "This soused or pickled style is similar to the Pescado en Escabeche of the Yucatán";
   - besotted [archaic], blind drunk, blotto, crocked [N. Amer], cockeyed, fuddled, loaded [N. Amer], pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet, pickled, tanked up, bombed, wasted, liquored up [N. Amer], three sheets to the wind, swacked [N. Amer], juiced [N. Amer], stonkered [Austral, NZ], bladdered [Brit], lit, paralytic [Brit], legless [Brit], steaming, out of it [Brit], stinko, blitzed, mullered [Brit], trashed, stewed, hammered, trolleyed [Brit], fried [N. Amer], bevvied [Brit], drunk, pixillated, squiffed, half-seas-over [Brit]

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. (cooking) cook in a marinade
   "souse herring"

See also: drunk, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated

Type of: booze, cook, drink, fuddle, immerse, plunge, wet

Encyclopedia: Soused