douse
11douse — [v] drench, extinguish with liquid blow out, deluge, drown, duck, dunk, immerse, plunge, put out, quench, saturate, slop, slosh, smother, snuff, snuff out, soak, sop, souse, spatter, splash, splatter, squench, steep, submerge, submerse, wet;… …
12douse — douse1 [dous] vt. doused, dousing [16th c. slang, ? akin to MDu dossen, to beat noisily] 1. Obs. to hit forcefully 2. Naut. to lower (sails) quickly 3. Informal to pull off (shoes, clothes, etc.) 4. Informal to put out (a light or fire) quickly… …
13douse — I. verb also dowse (doused; also dowsed; dousing; also dowsing) Etymology: perhaps from obsolete English douse to smite Date: 1600 transitive verb 1. to plunge into water 2. a. to …
14douse — [[t]da͟ʊs[/t]] douses, dousing, doused also dowse 1) VERB If you douse a fire, you stop it burning by pouring a lot of water over it. [V n] The pumps were started and the crew began to douse the fire with water. 2) VERB If you douse someone or… …
15Douse — This is an interesting and unusual name of medieval origin and is a dialectal variant of the name Daw, itself a name that can be either English or Welsh, with totally different origins. The Welsh form is from the pet name Daw for David, which is… …
16douse — UK [daʊs] / US verb [transitive] Word forms douse : present tense I/you/we/they douse he/she/it douses present participle dousing past tense doused past participle doused 1) to cover something or someone with a liquid, especially water or fuel 2) …
17douse — [c]/daʊs / (say dows) verb (doused, dousing) –verb (t) 1. to plunge into water or the like; drench: to douse someone with water. 2. Colloquial to put out or extinguish (a light). 3. Colloquial to take off or doff. 4. Nautical to lower in haste,… …
18douse — verb /daʊs/ a) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse. b) To strike or lower in haste; …
19douse — verb Douse is used with these nouns as the object: ↑fire, ↑flame …
20douse — [daʊs] (also dowse) verb 1》 drench with liquid. 2》 extinguish (a fire or light). 3》 Sailing lower (a sail) quickly. Origin C17: perh. imitative, influenced by souse, or perh. from dialect douse strike, beat , from MDu. and Low Ger. dossen …
