| verb | cover with liquid; pour liquid onto “souse water on his hot face” |
| verb | immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate “dip the garment into the cleaning solution” |
| verb | become drunk or drink excessively |
| verb | cook in a marinade “souse herring” |
| adjective | very drunk |
| soaker | noun | a heavy rain |
| soaking | noun | the act of making something completely wet |
| souse | noun | the act of making something completely wet |
| sousing | noun | the act of making something completely wet |
| Dunkard | noun | an adherent of Baptistic doctrines (who practice baptism by immersion) |
| dip | noun | a brief immersion |
| dipper | noun | a ladle that has a cup with a long handle |
| plunge | noun | a brief swim in water |
| plunger | noun | hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains |
| dousing | noun | the act of wetting something by submerging it |
| inebriation | noun | habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms |
| inebriate | noun | a chronic drinker |