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Synonyms for souse

Most common

alcoholic sponge lush soaker head cheese pickle

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

2. Soaking

soaking, drenching

Verb

1. Soak — to immerse in liquid; to steep or drench

soak, douse, drench, immerse, sop, submerge, steep

2. Dip

dip, plunge, dunk

3. Inebriate

hit it up informal, inebriate

Other

duck

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    Something kept or steeped in brine. The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.

  2. n. 2

    Something kept or steeped in brine. The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. Pickled scrapple.

  3. v. 1

    To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.

  4. v. 2

    To steep in brine; to pickle.

Related words

Word family
soused

Forms

Plural
souses → lushes, drunks, alcoholics, sponges…
Past participle
soused
e.g. soused → soaked, doused, drenched, immersed…

Example sentences

  • alcoholic I didn't know that Tom was a recovering alcoholic.
  • sponge Tom threw a soaking wet sponge at me at school today.
  • lush The goat peacefully grazed on the lush hillside.
  • pickle Don't wave that pickle at me while you're talking!

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
sousesteady
alcoholicfalling
spongesteady
lushrising
soakerrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
dip1, sop1, sot1
4 letters
duck1, soak1, lush1, dunk1, wino2, alky
5 letters
drunk1, steep1, douse1, toper, dipso
6 letters
sponge1, plunge1, pickle2, boozer2, drench1, soaker2
7 letters
soaking2, drinker2, immerse2, winesop, shicker, fuddler, cupster
8 letters
drunkard2, submerge2, maltworm
9 letters
alcoholic4, drenching2, inebriate4
11 letters
dipsomaniac

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (wino2 = 2 syllables).