souse
1. pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
• Hypernyms:
sausage
2. the act of making something completely wet
- he gave it a good drenching
• Syn:
drenching, soaking, sousing
• Derivationally related forms:
souse (for: sousing), soak (for: soaking)
• Hypernyms:
wetting
3. a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
• Syn:
alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker
• Derivationally related forms:
soak (for: soaker), booze (for: boozer), alcoholic (for: alcoholic)
• Hypernyms:
drunkard, drunk, rummy, sot, inebriate, wino
1. cover with liquid;
pour liquid onto (Freq. 1)
- souse water on his hot face
• Syn:
drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop
• Derivationally related forms:
sousing, soaker (for: soak), soaking (for: soak)
• Hypernyms:
wet
• Hyponyms:
brine, bedraggle, draggle, bate, ret,
sluice, flush
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
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
• Syn:
dunk, dip, plunge, douse
• Derivationally related forms:
dousing (for: douse), plunge (for: plunge), plunger (for: plunge), dip (for: dip), dipper (for: dip), Dunkard (for: dunk)
• Hypernyms:
immerse, plunge
• Hyponyms:
sop, dip, douse, duck, dabble
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP
3. become drunk or drink excessively
• Syn:
soak, inebriate, hit it up
• Derivationally related forms:
inebriation (for: inebriate), inebriate (for: inebriate), soaker (for: soak)
• Hypernyms:
drink, booze, fuddle
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
4. cook in a marinade
- souse herring
• Topics:
cooking, cookery, preparation
• Hypernyms:
cook
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- The chefs souse the vegetables
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