Synonyms of souses

souses 1 of 2

noun

plural of souse

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• alcoholics
• drunks
• drinkers
• drunkards
• inebriates
• topers
• sots
• rummies
• tipplers
• soaks
• boozers
• dipsomaniacs
• alkies
• tosspots
• juiceheads
• soakers
• juicers
• boozehounds
• lushes
• swillers
• winos
• swiggers

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• abstainers
• teetotallers
• nondrinkers
• teetotalers
• teetotalists

souses

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of souse

1

as in wets

to make wet

a passing car barreled through the puddle and soused us good

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wets
• washes
• drowns
• waters
• floods
• water-soaks
• rinses
• soaks
• drenches
• bathes
• dowses
• waterlogs
• sops
• bedraggles
• douses
• flushes
• wets down
• dips
• showers
• soddens
• sprinkles
• bedews
• damps
• moistens
• drizzles
• submerges
• splashes
• asperses
• laves
• humidifies
• inundates
• hydrates
• deluges
• hoses (down)
• mists
• moisturizes
• swamps
• impregnates
• saturates
• overflows
• sluices
• dampens
• irrigates
• sloshes
• ducks
• dunks
• rewashes
• rehydrates
• rewets
• steeps

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dries
• parches
• desiccates
• sears
• dehydrates
• evaporates
• scorches
• dewaters
• freeze-dries
• wrings
• dehumidifies
• drip-dries

2

as in dips

to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid

repeatedly soused the tools in the tub to get the dirt off

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dips
• ducks
• drowns
• dunks
• immerses
• dowses
• douses
• submerges
• wets
• sops
• submerses
• soaks
• moistens
• bathes
• floods
• drenches
• plunges
• thrusts
• steeps
• dives

3

as in soaks

to wet thoroughly with liquid

firefighters soused the neighboring houses so that they wouldn't catch fire as well

Synonyms & Similar Words

• soaks
• macerates
• drowns
• impregnates
• saturates
• drenches
• dips
• sops
• washes
• steeps
• soddens
• submerges
• water-soaks
• waters
• immerses
• marinates
• penetrates
• waterlogs
• seethes
• inundates
• swamps
• permeates
• bathes
• swills
• presoaks
• infiltrates
• dowses
• moistens
• hydrates
• douses
• humidifies
• damps
• dampens

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dries
• empties
• drains
• wrings (out)
• sears
• dehydrates
• parches
• voids
• desiccates
• dehumidifies