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soûler

to intoxicate, to get drunk

verb soo-LEH Rare

Also means

to bore senseless, to overwhelm (informal)

Usage Note

Soûler (also spelled saouler) means both to make someone drunk (se soûler — to get drunk) and, colloquially, to overwhelm or exhaust someone with talk or noise (tu me soûles — you're driving me crazy). The latter informal sense is extremely common in everyday French. The related noun soûlerie means a drunken binge.

Examples

"Ce bruit finit par me soûler."

Natural Translation

This noise is starting to drive me crazy.

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