as in alcoholics
a person who makes a habit of getting drunk
an old souse who lumbered home with a full bottle of gin in him every night
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as in wets
to make wet
a passing car barreled through the puddle and soused us good
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as in soaks
to wet thoroughly with liquid
firefighters soused the neighboring houses so that they wouldn't catch fire as well
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Recent Examples of souses
Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
Both actors were the sons of souses (Dick Hopkins, on retiring from the baking trade, opened a pub), and the stuff was in their bloodstream.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for souses
Noun
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AlAnon is a support group for family and friends of alcoholics/addicts.—
Ramona Sentinel,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Dec. 2025
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Most notable was that the functional and young adult subtypes represented roughly between 19% to 31% of all alcoholics, while the chronic severe subtype represented only 9%—yet the latter has become the stereotype.—
Sarah Allen Benton,
SELF,
23 Dec. 2025
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Sweat that can’t escape wets a jacket’s layer of insulation and accelerates heat loss.—
Longji Cui,
The Conversation,
26 Dec. 2025
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But the comedy is absolutely something that wets my beak, I'm drawn to it.—
H. Alan Scott,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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The seven-mile Torreya Challenge Loop steadily climbs and dips, meandering over creeks, an old forest road, and blackberry brambles, following a ridge where mountain laurels bloom in the spring and visitors can find the steepest incline in the park.—
Carrie Honaker,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Nov. 2025
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When staffing dips, the pressure mounts.—
Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Nov. 2025
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Long soaks and extreme heat damage wood by swelling and drying it unevenly, making spoons more likely to crack and split.—
Bridget Shirvell,
Martha Stewart,
29 Dec. 2025
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In this model, dark matter isn't a particle at all but rather a quantum field that soaks all of space and time.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
26 Dec. 2025
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Baseus Noise-cancelling Headphones These noise-cancelling headphones are a must-have for frequent travelers, delivering adaptive noise reduction that drowns out jet engine roar, crying babies, and chatty seatmates for peaceful flights or train rides.—
Gabriela Garcia,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Nov. 2025
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About once a year, someone drowns.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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Another agreed, comparing them to their Spanx AirEssentials set, but saying this one washes better.—
Alyssa Grabinski,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
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To start with a wedding, then wait ’til later to figure out the details of who washes the dishes and whether the toilet seat stays down, sounds backwards but is certainly better than hostage-taking and war without an achievable end.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
26 Oct. 2025
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One of Johnson’s timeliest essays, though, is about Alien, Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror about an extraterrestrial creature that forcibly impregnates a member of a commercial hauling ship, killing him when the alien fetus bursts out of his abdomen.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2025
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The phenomenon, which happens when Pacific Ocean waters off South America are cooler than normal, has been thought to signal a drier season, but experts say the impact in Northern California is less severe — and maybe even inconsequential — compared to southern parts of the state.—
Adrian Rodriguez,
Mercury News,
7 Nov. 2025
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It’s currently caught in a pocket of wind shear that’s helping to balance out the storm-fueling effects of the warmer-than-average waters its crossing.—
Alex Harris,
Miami Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Souses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/souses. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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