Soup

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  • noun. A liquid food prepared from meat, fish, or vegetable stock combined with various other ingredients and often containing solid pieces.
  • noun. Something having the appearance or a consistency suggestive of soup, especially.
  • noun. Dense fog.
  • noun. Nitroglycerine.
  • noun. Primordial soup.
  • noun. A chaotic or unfortunate situation.
  • phrasal verb. To modify (something) so as to increase its capacity to perform or satisfy, especially to add horsepower or greater speed potential to (an engine or a vehicle).
  • idiom. (in the soup) Having difficulties; in trouble.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An obsolete or dialectal form of sup.
  • noun. In cookery, originally, a liquor with something soaked in it, as a sop of bread; now, a broth; a liquid dish served usually before fish or meat at dinner.
  • noun. A kind of picnic in which a great pot of soup is the principal feature. Compare the like use of chowder.
  • An obsolete form of soop, swoop.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To sup or swallow.
  • noun. A liquid food of many kinds, usually made by boiling meat and vegetables, or either of them, in water, -- commonly seasoned or flavored; strong broth.
  • noun. an establishment for preparing and supplying soup to the poor.
  • noun. a ticket conferring the privilege of receiving soup at a soup kitchen.
  • transitive verb. To breathe out.
  • transitive verb. To sweep. See sweep, and swoop.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute flavor and texture.
  • noun. Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
  • verb. To feed: to provide with soup or a meal.
  • verb. To be in trouble or in difficulty (often passive--cf. in the soup).
  • verb. To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. dope (a racehorse)
  • noun. an unfortunate situation
  • noun. any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup
  • noun. liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food
  • Word Usage
    "This he found on inquiry was the soup-kettle of a corps of Janissaries, and always held in high respect; indeed, so distinguishing a characteristic of this body is their _soup_, that their colonel is called Tchorbadgé, or the distributor of soup."
    cross-reference
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    bisque  bouillon  chowder  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Guadeloupe  Hoop  Loop  Shoop  coop  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bean  beef  biscuit  broth  cheese  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    sweep  swoop  
    verb-form
    souped  soups