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Souse

A corrupt form of Sou.

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Verb group 2

Tweak 84% connected

To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose.

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Tweak 84% connected

To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose.

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Manner of action 12

Bate 76% connected

Strife; contention.

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Bedraggle 76% connected

To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc.

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Brine 76% connected

Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor result…

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Dabble 76% connected

To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet.

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Dip 76% connected

To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.

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Douse 76% connected

To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.

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Draggle 76% connected

To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail.

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Duck 76% connected

A pet; a darling.

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Flush 76% connected

To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

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Ret 76% connected

See Aret.

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Sluice 76% connected

An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood ga…

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Sop 76% connected

Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.

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Broader term 14

Booze 76% connected

To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple.

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Cook 76% connected

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

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Drink 76% connected

To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink…

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Drunk 76% connected

of Drink

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Drunkard 76% connected

One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot.

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Fuddle 76% connected

To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.

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Immerse 76% connected

Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.

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Inebriate 76% connected

To make drunk; to intoxicate.

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Plunge 76% connected

To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to pl…

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Rummy 76% connected

Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.

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Sausage 76% connected

An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared…

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Sot 76% connected

A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.

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Wet 76% connected

Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet…

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Wetting 76% connected

of Wet

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Douse 74% connected

To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Douse 74% connected

To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dunker 74% connected

One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers,…

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Dunker 74% connected

One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers,…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Sousing 74% connected

of Souse

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Sousing 74% connected

of Souse

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Synonym 16

Alcoholic 92% connected

Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholi…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Boozer 92% connected

One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dip 92% connected

To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dipsomaniac 92% connected

One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Douse 92% connected

To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dowse 92% connected

To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Drench 92% connected

To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Drenching 92% connected

of Drench

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Inebriate 92% connected

To make drunk; to intoxicate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lush 92% connected

Full of juice or succulence.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Plunge 92% connected

To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to pl…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Soak 92% connected

To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the p…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Soaker 92% connected

One who, or that which, soaks.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Soaking 92% connected

of Soak

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Sop 92% connected

Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sousing 92% connected

of Souse

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