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UK
/sˈaʊs/
]
NOUN
- a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
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the act of making something completely wet
he gave it a good drenching - pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
VERB
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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 -
cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
souse water on his hot face - become drunk or drink excessively
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cook in a marinade
souse herring
How To Use souse In A Sentence
- Hast thou no great bag-pudding, nor hog's-face that is called souse? A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6
- On no night did I see more than forty or fifty who might be said to be "soused"; on no night did I see more than a dozen or fifteen who had to be thrown into the accommodation barge with the "dead ones," the helpless ones who were so far gone that they had to be carried up the sides of their ships from the barge which made the last rounds of the fleet. The U-boat hunters
- She suggests a four-stage process: walk into your house; turn the oven up high; prepare two or three ingredients in imaginative combinations (such as poussin, sweet potato and red onions; or cod, courgettes and capers); slap them in the oven, soused with oil and herbs; and retire to a sofa to souse yourself with something even stronger. Sorted For Brill And Whizz
- The diamond ring was soused into the fishbowl of water.
- The araguato at the "tail-end" of the bridge, not knowing what had happened, and thinking all was right for swinging himself across, slipped his tail from the branch just at the very same instant that the wounded one let go, and the whole chain fell "souse" into the water! The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon
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- Choppy waves soused the seaweed which clung to the rocks.
- He mistakes Vernon for an officious bartender, Irving for an interfering fellow john; meanwhile, he gets more soused and the situation more fraught.
- But suddenly it sounds like a luscious late - luncheon launchpad: seared lamb kidneys glazed with marsala, pumpkin ravioli and parsley garlic pesto with soused leek.
- The London managers, however, have planned to throw out all soused writers from the new place.