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Sousing

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Noun

1. drenching, soaking, souse, sousing

the act of making something completely wet

Example Sentences:
'he gave it a good drenching'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Sousing

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verb
1. 
to plunge (something, oneself, etc) into water or other liquid
2. 
to drench or be drenched
3. (transitive)
to pour or dash (liquid) over (a person or thing)
4. 
to steep or cook (food) in a marinade
5. (tr; usually passive) slang
to make drunk
noun
6. 
the liquid or brine used in pickling
7. 
the act or process of sousing
8. slang
a habitual drunkard
verb (intransitive)
1. (often foll by on or upon)
to swoop suddenly downwards (on a prey)
noun
2. 
a sudden downward swoop

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Sousing

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noun
1. 
a pickled food, esp. the feet, ears, and head of a pig
2. 
liquid used for pickling; brine
3. 
the act of plunging into a liquid, esp. into brine for pickling
4.  US, Slang
a drunkard
verb transitive, verb intransitiveWord forms: soused or ˈsousing
5. 
to pickle
6. 
to plunge or steep in a liquid
7. 
to make or become soaking wet
8.  US, Slang
to make or become intoxicated
noun
1.  Falconry; Obsolete
the act of swooping down on prey by a hawk, falcon, etc.
verb transitive, verb intransitiveWord forms: soused or ˈsousing
2.  Falconry; Obsolete
to swoop down (on)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Sousing

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v. soused, sous·ing, sous·es
v.tr.
1. To plunge into a liquid.
2. To make soaking wet; drench.
3. To steep in a mixture, as in pickling.
4. Slang To make intoxicated.
v.intr.
To become immersed or soaking wet.
n.
1. The act or process of sousing.
2.
a. Food steeped in pickle, especially pork trimmings.
b. The liquid used in pickling; brine.
3. Slang
a. A drunkard.
b. A period of heavy drinking; a binge.
v. soused, sous·ing, sous·es
Archaic
v.tr.
To attack by swooping down on. Used of a bird of prey.
v.intr.
To swoop down, as an attacking hawk does.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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