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1. The act of making something completely wet
   - drenching, soaking, souse

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. Become drunk or drink excessively
   - soak, inebriate, hit it up
    
4. (cooking) cook in a marinade
   "souse herring"

Derived forms: sousings

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

Encyclopedia: Souse