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Soused

adjective

1.

Very drunk. Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet.

Souse

verb

(past & past part. soused; pres. part. sousing)

1.

Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto. Synonyms: douse, dowse, drench, soak, sop.

2.

Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate. Synonyms: dip, douse, dunk, plunge. "Dip the brush into the paint"

3.

Become drunk or drink excessively. Synonyms: hit it up, inebriate, soak.

4.

Cook in a marinade.

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"Soused" Quotes from Famous Books

... Sylvia had been at the Chalet des Muguets, her host, in deference to her English taste, had put a large admixture of vinegar in the salad dressing, but this time she saw that he soused the ...

— The Chink in the Armour • Marie Belloc Lowndes

... the water trickling uncomfortably down him inside his clothes and swashing juicily in his shoes. He liked Scarborough for the way he had acted, but he felt less kindly towards Westby. He was by no means sure that Westby had not deliberately soused him and then pretended it was an accident. He remembered Westby's mirthful laugh just when the thing was happening; and certainly if it had really been an accident Westby had shown very little concern. He had been indecently amused; he ...

— The Jester of St. Timothy's • Arthur Stanwood Pier

... ten-inch trout, stripped it, flung the entrails out into the pond, soused the fish in water, and threw it into a ...

— The Flaming Jewel • Robert W. Chambers

... guns (as I had goods) to work my Christian harm, I had run him up from his quarter-deck to trade with his own yard-arm; I had nailed his ears to my capstan-head, and ripped them off with a saw, And soused them in the bilgewater, and served them to him raw; I had flung him blind in a rudderless boat to rot in the rocking dark, I had towed him aft of his own craft, a bait for his brother shark; I had lapped him round with cocoa ...

— Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads • Rudyard Kipling

... your old woman! [Then matter-of-fact.] But I've no time for kidding. You're soused. I'd run you in but it's too long a walk to the station. Come on now, get up, or I'll fan your ears with this club. Beat it now! [He hauls YANK ...

— The Hairy Ape • Eugene O'Neill

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