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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, blitzed, out of it [Brit], mullered [Brit], trolleyed [Brit], legless [Brit], stewed, tanked up, liquored up [N. Amer], bombed, trashed, wasted, paralytic [Brit], three sheets to the wind, stonkered [Austral, NZ], pickled, juiced [N. Amer], stinko, hammered, bladdered [Brit], bevvied [Brit], drunk, pixillated, squiffed

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"

See also: drunk, inebriated, intoxicated, sousing

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

Encyclopedia: Souse