to souse
3
9.9
- verb
- /saʊs/
- Archaic
:
embriagarse
- She hasn't been soused in years.
- get soused
- really soused
- so soused
Examples
-
Why do you want to get soused?
-
Caroline, you're absolutely soused.
Fiction book (1990) -
But you been getting soused in the club car on the train every night.
-
When everyone is soused, they plan the game of "I Never."
Fiction book (2000) -
I've never seen him so soused.
-
There was conversation in a language I had never heard before, but it was clear that my uninvited visitors were somewhat soused.
Academic text (1994) -
He's soused!
-
Last I heard, he's soused up somewhere in some Polack North Buffalo tavern, and I don't expect to see the bastard tonight at all.
Fiction book (2001) -
I hadn't really paid much attention before, but he was drunk—soused, really—and he hadn't eaten or bathed in a while; I could see that now.
Fiction book (1994) -
After a long week at work, he decided to go out and souse himself with his friends at the pub.
Synonyms
22
8.8
Make someone drunk
7
8.4
To make someone drunk or to get drunk from alcohol
To drink a lot of alcohol
To drink a lot of alcohol, often as a habit
Antonyms
How Drunk
Surface Forms
Etymology
An old use of souse was a verb meaning to drink too much, like to soak yourself in alcohol. A helpful way to remember it is to think of someone 'soaked' in drink, which explains the old meaning 'to become drunk'.