Meaning of DOUSE
| Pronunciation: | | daws
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- [v] cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"
- [v] slacken; "douse a rope"
- [v] lower quickly; "douse a sail"
- [v] immerse into a liquid; "dunk the bread into the soup"
- [v] dip into a liquid; "He dipped into the pool"
- [v] wet thoroughly
- [v] put out, as of a candle or a light; "Douse the lights"
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| | Synonyms: | | dip, dip, dowse, dowse, drench, duck, dunk, plunge, put out, soak, sop, souse, souse |
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| | See Also: | | bate, bedraggle, brine, dabble, douse, douse, duck, dunk, extinguish, flush, furl, immerse, plunge, quench, remit, ret, roll up, slacken, sluice, sop, souse, wet, wet | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Douse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Doused}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Dousing}.] [Cf. {Dowse}, and OD. donsen to strike with the
fist on the back, Sw. dunsa to fall down violently and
noisily; perh. akin to E. din.]
1. To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to
dowse. --Bp. Stillingfleet.
2. (Naut.) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly;
as, douse the topsail.
\Douse\, v. i.
To fall suddenly into water. --Hudibras.
\Douse\, v. t. [AS. dw[ae]scan. (Skeat.)]
To put out; to extinguish. [Slang] `` To douse the glim.''
--Sir W. Scott.
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| | Related Terms: | | bang, baptize, bash, bat, belt, blow out, bop, bury, cast off, choke, crack, damp, deluge, dip, doff, drench, drop, drown, duck, dunk, engulf, extinguish, immerge, immerse, inundate, merge, out, overwhelm, plash, plunge in water, put off, put out, quench, remove, sink, slack, slam, slip out of, slop, slosh, smack, smash, smother, snuff, snuff out, soak, sop, souse, spatter, splatter, splosh, splurge, spurtle, stamp out, step out of, stifle, submerge, submerse, swash, take off, throw off, undo, unwrap, wet, whelm |
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