Meaning

Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture..

Definitions by Sense

1. Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.
2. (figuratively) Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
3. (uncommon) To feed: to provide with soup or a meal.
4. (photography) To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.
5. (obsolete) To proselytize by feeding the impoverished as long as they listen to one's preaching.
6. Alternative form of sup (“to sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon”).
7. Alternative form of sup (“a sip; a small amount of food or drink”).
8. (obsolete) To sweep.

Example Sentences

Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup.

Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]

The cleanup job would turn out to be possibly second only to body-recovery duty in terms of being a job that nobody wanted to get assigned to. Imagine, for a moment, a thick soup of oil, paper, ink, clothing, raw meat and other fresh provisions, and worse, that had all been left to collect together in semi-warm water, all enclosed in a large metal container that had then been subjected to heating by first fire and then repeated warm Hawaiian days, and then left to ferment for over a month, and then with most of the water drained away and all the remaining solid and semi-liquid mass collecting together in pools and heaps across multiple decks, still in a relatively-enclosed environment.

I'm blessed if I've heard about any thing but kangaroo-tail soup all the while I was at Launceston. They souped me there night and day.

Now laughing together thaws our human ice; long before Swindon it was a talking match, —at Swindon who so devoted as Captain Dolignan,—he handed them out—he souped them,—he tough-chickened them,—he brandied and cochinealed one, and he brandied and burnt-sugared the other;

"I was so mad, I let him wait half an hour to-night before I souped him."

She cooked huge stock pots and souped her dogs once a day.

I souped the dogs, and went in for a bite. I ended up going back out and making my pups a full meal, then went back in and pigged out myself.

Word Forms

• soups
• soop
• souping
• souped

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When Should You Use Soup?

Use soup when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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