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. (cooking) cook in a marinade
   "souse herring"
    
4. Become drunk or drink excessively
   "They soused themselves at the New Year's party";
   - soak, inebriate

1. The act of making something completely wet
   "he gave it a good souse";
   - drenching, soaking, sousing
    
2. Pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
   "Souse is a traditional dish in some Caribbean cuisines"
    
3. [informal] A person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
   "The souse was a regular at the local bar";
   - alcoholic, alky [informal], dipsomaniac, boozer [informal], lush [N. Amer, informal], soaker [informal], alco [Austral], rumpot [N. Amer, informal], tosspot [informal], dipso [informal], winebibber [archaic], alkie [informal], drunkard, drunk, rummy, sot, inebriate, wino [informal]

Derived forms: soused, souses, sousing

Type of: booze [informal], cook, drink, drinker, fuddle, hit the bottle [informal], imbiber [informal], immerse, juicer [N. Amer, informal], plunge, sausage, soak [informal], sponge [informal], toper [literary], wet, wetting, wurst

Encyclopedia: Souse