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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