Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To wet thoroughly; drench.
- transitive verb To put out (a light or fire); extinguish.
- noun A thorough drenching.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put out; extinguish.
- To strike.
- Nautical, to strike or lower in haste; slacken suddenly: as, douse the topsail.
- To thrust or plunge into a fluid; immerse; dip; also, to drench or flood with a fluid.
- To fall or be plunged suddenly into a fluid.
- To search for deposits of ore, for lodes, or for water, by the aid of the dousing- or divining-rod (which see).
- noun A blow; a stroke.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.
- transitive verb (Naut.) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly.
- transitive verb Slang To put out; to extinguish.
- intransitive verb To fall suddenly into water.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
strike . - verb transitive, nautical To
strike or lower inhaste ; toslacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail. - noun A
blow ;stroke . - verb transitive, intransitive To
plunge suddenly intowater ; toduck ; toimmerse . - verb intransitive To
fall suddenly into water. - verb transitive To
put out ; toextinguish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- verb put out, as of a candle or a light
- verb dip into a liquid
- verb immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- verb wet thoroughly
- verb lower quickly
- verb slacken
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Thanks for "douse" which reminds me of a reflexive verb that I had wanted to include in the story: "se tartiner".
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Thanks for "douse" which reminds me of a reflexive verb that I had wanted to include in the story: "se tartiner".
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And, one day, a first person account of what it's actually like to "douse" Mer Whit "with ... champagne."
Dealbreaker 2009
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And, one day, a first person account of what it's actually like to "douse" Mer Whit "with ... champagne."
Dealbreaker 2009
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What I do know is that people in both México and the U.S. are going to have to get over their fears and work together to douse the fires that are spreading in both houses.
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Crude oil prices alone could douse this euphoria soon.
A Crude Reality For India's Budget Harsh Joshi 2011
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Just grate orange peel into a mason jar, pierce the skin of the pepper, douse in vodka, seal, wait three days and then filter out the pepper and orange.
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Because the insurance companies that provided the fire departments that would only douse the fires of individual policy holders?
Think Progress » Pawlenty completes global warming flip-flop, calls cap and trade a ‘disaster.’ 2010
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Just grate orange peel into a mason jar, pierce the skin of the pepper, douse in vodka, seal, wait three days and then filter out the pepper and orange.
2010 June archive at 2010
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Just grate orange peel into a mason jar, pierce the skin of the pepper, douse in vodka, seal, wait three days and then filter out the pepper and orange.
2010 June archive at 2010
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