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sauced

/sɔːst//sɔst/

sauced is the simple past and past participle of sauce.

Adjective

sauced (comparative more sauced, superlative most sauced)

  1. Covered with sauce.
    • a sauced fish
    Antonyms:
    unsauced, sauceless
  2. (slang) Drunk.

Meaning of sauce

Verb

sauce (third-person singular simple present sauces, present participle saucing, simple past and past participle sauced)

  1. To add sauce to; to season.
  2. To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.
    • Earth, yield me roots; / Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate / With thy most operant poison!c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  3. To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
    • Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London...
  4. (colloquial) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
    • I'll sauce her with bitter words.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  5. (slang) To send or hand over.

See all 14 meanings of sauce

Synonyms of sauced

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Antonyms

Forms of sauced

comparativemore sauced
superlativemost sauced

Phrases with sauced

Words that rhyme with sauced

Questions about sauced

What does sauced mean?
Sauced means covered with sauce.
What is sauced the simple past and past participle of?
Sauced is the simple past and past participle of sauce.
What part of speech is sauced?
Sauced is an adjective.
How do you pronounce sauced?
Sauced is pronounced /sɔːst/ (UK).

Words near sauced in the dictionary

  1. sauce-y
  2. sauceboat
  3. sauceboats
  4. saucebox
  5. sauceboxes
  6. sauced
  7. sauced up
  8. Sauceda
  9. Saucedas
  10. saucedish
  11. saucedishes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sauced (page history and authors); sauce (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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