souse

v. soak, steep, immerse (in a liquid); make wet, drench; pickle; make intoxicated (Slang)

n. immersing, thorough wetting, soaking; something that has been soaked in pickle (especially the ears, feet, etc. of a pig); pickling liquid, brine; drunkard (Slang); drinking binge (Slang)

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Noun
1. a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
(synonym) alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker
(hypernym) drunkard, drunk, rummy, sot, inebriate
(derivation) soak, inebriate, hit it up
2. pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
(hypernym) sausage
3. the act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a good drenching"
(synonym) drenching, soaking, sousing
(hypernym) wetting
(derivation) dunk, dip, plunge, douse

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Verb
1. cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"
(synonym) drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop
(hypernym) wet
(hyponym) brine
(derivation) drenching, soaking, sousing
2. immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint"
(synonym) dunk, dip, plunge, douse
(hypernym) immerse, plunge
(hyponym) sop
(derivation) drenching, soaking, sousing
3. become drunk or drink excessively
(synonym) soak, inebriate, hit it up
(hypernym) drink, booze, fuddle
(derivation) alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker
4. cook in a marinade; "souse herring"
(hypernym) cook
(classification) cooking, cookery, preparation

(v. t.)
To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack.
  

(v. t.)
To steep in pickle; to pickle.
  

(v. t.)
To pounce upon.
  

(v. t.)
To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.
  

(v. t.)
To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly.
  

(n.)
The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
  

(n.)
The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
  

(n.)
The act of sousing, or swooping.
  

(n.)
Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
  

(n.)
Pickle made with salt.
  

(n.)
A corrupt form of Sou.
  

(adv.)
With a sudden swoop; violently.
  

Synonyms and related words:
baptism, baptize, bathe, bender, booze, booze up, boozehound, boozify, bottle sucker, brannigan, brew, brewing, bum, burial, bury, bust, chug, chug-a-lug, crock, deluge, dip, dipping, douche, douse, dousing, drench, drenching, drouk, drown, drunk, duck, ducking, dunk, dunking, elbow bender, engulf, engulfment, flush, fuddle, ginhound, hooch hound, imbrue, imbruement, imbue, imbuement, immerge, immergence, immerse, immersion, impregnate, impregnation, infiltrate, infiltration, infuse, infusion, inject, injection, inundate, inundation, jag, lave, leach, leaching, liquor, liquor up, lixiviate, lixiviation, lush, lusher, macerate, maceration, merge, overtake, overwhelm, percolate, percolation, permeate, permeation, pickle, plaster, plunge in water, pollute, pulping, raise the elbow, rinse, rum hound, rummy, saturate, saturation, seethe, seething, sink, sinking, soak, soakage, soaking, sodden, sop, sopping, sousing, sponge, steep, steeping, stew, stone, submerge, submergence, submerse, submersion, swack, swig, swill, swillbelly, swillbowl, swillpot, tank up, tear, tipsify, wash, waterlog, wet, whelm, wino