1. [informal] Very drunk
   "I had travelling money and got soused in the bar downstairs";
   - besotted [archaic], blind drunk [informal], blotto [informal], crocked [N. Amer, informal], cockeyed [informal], fuddled [informal], loaded [N. Amer, informal], pie-eyed [informal], pissed [Brit, informal], pixilated [informal], plastered [informal], sloshed [informal], smashed [informal], soaked [informal], sozzled [informal], stiff [informal], tight [informal], wet [informal], drunk, bombed [informal], three sheets to the wind [informal], off one's face [Brit, informal], pickled [informal], stinko [informal], fried [N. Amer, informal], legless [Brit, informal], blootered [UK, dialect], paralytic [Brit, informal], stewed [informal], liquored up [N. Amer], swacked [N. Amer, informal], steaming [informal], trashed [informal], trolleyed [Brit, informal], bladdered [Brit, informal], mullered [Brit, informal], trollied [Brit, informal], tanked up [informal], screwed [informal], lit up [slang], wasted [informal], out of it [Brit, informal], hammered [informal], blitzed [informal], stonkered [Austral, NZ, informal], juiced [N. Amer, informal], wrecked [Brit, informal], bevvied [Brit, informal], pixillated, half-seas-over [Brit, informal]
    
2. (of fish) preserved in pickle
   "soused herring"

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

See also: drunk, gone, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped [informal], skunked [informal]

Type of: booze [informal], cook, drink, fuddle, hit the bottle [informal], immerse, plunge, wet

Encyclopedia: Soused