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Noun souse has 3 senses
- alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker, souse - a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
--1 is a kind of drunkard, drunk, rummy, sot, inebriate
- souse - pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
--2 is a kind of sausage
- drenching, soaking, souse, sousing - the act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a good drenching"
--3 is a kind of wetting
Verb souse has 4 senses
- drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse - cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"
--1 is one way to wet
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- dunk, dip, souse, plunge, douse - 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"
--2 is one way to immerse, plunge
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- souse, soak, inebriate, hit it up - become drunk or drink excessively
--3 is one way to drink, booze, fuddle
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- souse - cook in a marinade; "souse herring"
--4 is one way to cook
Sample sentence:
The chefs souse the vegetables
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