Definitions for soused

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Spelling: [soust]

IPA: /saʊst/

Soused is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in soused (deossu).

Definitions for soused

noun

1. an act of sousing.
2. something kept or steeped in pickle, especially the head, ears, and feet of a pig.
3. a liquid used as a pickle.
4. Slang. a drunkard.
5. a rising while in flight.
6. a swooping or pouncing.

adjective

1. drunk; intoxicated.

verb (used with object)

1. to plunge into water or other liquid; immerse.
2. to drench, as with water.
3. to dash or pour, as water.
4. to steep in pickling brine; pickle.
5. to swoop or pounce upon.

verb (used without object)

1. to plunge into water or other liquid.
2. to be soaked or drenched.
3. to be steeping or soaking in something.
4. to swoop down.

Origin of soused

1540-50, in sense “pickled”; 1605-15 for current sense; souse¹ + -ed²

Examples for soused

He soused a towel he found on the washstand into it and slopped it over Mark's face.

And above it all, he smelled like one who had been soused in aromatic oils.

It soused into the water, and I leaned forward to observe the splash.

First she took it by the heels and plunged it in the river; then by the head and soused it in that way.

The man must have been set afire had he not been soused in the river beforehand.

On Wednesday night the Wildcat soused himself with bay rum and musk.

"Well, my good woman," said he as soon as she got soused on to the seat.

I got soused to the waist before I had reached the bows of the boat.

I warrant you,” she muttered, “he commended my soused cucumbers.

Had he been soused in a bath of indigo he could not have been colored more completely.