souse vs dip

souse and dip both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
souse	Yes	No	Yes	No
dip	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, souse and dip are synonyms defined as:

souse and dip: immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate

Other synonyms of souse include douse, dunk, plunge.

As verbs, dip is a hyponym of souse; that is, dip is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than souse:

Other hyponyms of souse include sop, douse, duck, dabble.

souse (noun)	dip (noun)
the act of making something completely wet	a brief swim in water
pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled	a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually	a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
	a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
	a brief immersion
	tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
	a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
	(physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
	a depression in an otherwise level surface

souse (verb)	dip (verb)
cook in a marinade	stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
cover with liquid; pour liquid onto	go down momentarily
become drunk or drink excessively	dip into a liquid while eating
immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate	immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
	plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
	immerse in a disinfectant solution
	scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
	place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
	dip into a liquid
	appear to move downward
	slope downwards
	lower briefly
	switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
	take a small amount from