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sousing

sousing is the present participle and gerund of souse.

Meaning of souse

Verb (1)

souse (third-person singular simple present souses, present participle sousing, simple past and past participle soused)

  1. (transitive) To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
    • (Although I bee well soused in this showere,)1575, George Gascoigne, The introduction to the Psalme of De Profundis
  2. (transitive) To steep in brine; to pickle.

Verb (2)

souse (third-person singular simple present souses, present participle sousing, simple past and past participle soused)

  1. (dialectal, transitive) To strike, beat.
  2. (dialectal, intransitive) To fall heavily.
    • Him so transfixed she before her bore / Beyond his croupe, the length of all her launce; / Till, sadly soucing on the sandy shore, / He tombled on an heape, and wallowd in his gore.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To pounce upon.
    • [The gallant monarch] like an eagle o'er his eyrie towers, / To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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Noun

sousing (plural sousings)

  1. An immersing or drenching in liquid.
    • Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

Forms of sousing

pluralsousings

Questions about sousing

What does sousing mean?
Sousing means an immersing or drenching in liquid.
What is sousing the present participle and gerund of?
Sousing is the present participle and gerund of souse.
What part of speech is sousing?
Sousing is a noun.
What is the plural of sousing?
The plural of sousing is sousings.

Words near sousing in the dictionary

  1. sousemeat
  2. sousemeats
  3. souser
  4. sousers
  5. souses
  6. sousing
  7. sousings
  8. souslik
  9. sousliks
  10. Souss-Massa
  11. Sousse

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