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douse
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Word definitions for douse in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douse \Douse\, v. i. To fall suddenly into water. --Hudibras.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES douse the flames (= pour water on them to make them stop ) ▪ We used a bucket of water to douse the flames. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN flame ▪ Mike Chittenden staggered in flames into a neighbouring office, where ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "to strike, punch," which is perhaps from Middle Dutch dossen "beat forcefully" or a similar Low German word.\n \nMeaning "to strike a sail in haste" is recorded from 1620s; that of "to extinguish (a light)" is from 1785; perhaps influenced by dout ...
Usage examples of douse.
Maga and Allel would have had every fire in the hall lit, ready to be doused.
Refilling the tub, she doused some liquid antibacterial soap into the warm water.
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Jim Garfield and the others was pulling him out of the bresh and dousing him in the creek to wash the blood off.
Elite skin had to be somewhat permeable, and a heavy douse of fadeaway would put one down for several minutes while the Elite immune system dealt with the drug.
Brusquely shaking off the torpor which was the legacy of her shallow, broken sleep, Rosemary got out of bed and went to the handbasin in the corner to douse herself with cold water.
The dousing fluid was highly volatile, evaporating at room temperature, drawing off microparticles on my body and clothes.
The staff grew pale around his hand and spread down the length of the wood, dousing the spats of darkfire as it flowed.
Together, the three planes could douse nearly twelve acres of the surface with the Ulva solution, dropping more than twenty-one thousand gallons of the displaced seawater onto the site in less than a minute.
The wave had combed a hundred feet up the slope, dousing the fire, but Nonnus had snatched the handle of the bronze cookpot before it vanished into the rolling sea.
He preserves his life with humour, by desperately dousing his stinging eyes with the eyedrops of wit.
A guard sergeant filled a bucket of water and doused the pile of brandy-soaked uniforms which, heavily sprinkled with gunpowder and then piled with loosely stacked, brandy soaked ledgers, had caused the pungent smoke.
If he were to flush out all his IT and douse the sockets so as to flood the underlying electrodes with neurostimulators, the neurons further beneath would resume the business of forging new connections, further extending the synaptic tangles which already bound the contacts to every part of his brain.
I drank mine black, but Julian doused his with two tablespoons each of cream and sugar.
So she acted as if nothing were unusual as she popped waffles into the toaster, and as she buttered them and doused them with syrup from the maple crop Micah had produced the spring before, she chatted with the girls about school, about snow, about upcoming Ice Days.