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 the food value, flavor, and texture.
• 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.
• (figuratively) Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
  "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."
• (figuratively) Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.

verb

• (uncommon) To feed: to provide with soup or a meal.
  "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."
• (photography) To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.
  "That girl Vivienne, by the way, once worked as a secretary in the workshop of The Rotarian, began "souping" her own snapshots at home, went from there to top rank as a New York color photographer specializing in small children […]"
• (obsolete) To proselytize by feeding the impoverished as long as they listen to one's preaching.
  "Was the priest who denounced those books of the National Board as "souping books" the patron of a national school?"

verb

• (obsolete) To sweep.
  "He vaunts his voice upon an hired stage, With high-set steps and princely carriage, Now souping in side robes of royalty."