Crossword clues for doused
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douse \Douse\ (dous), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doused (doust); 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.]
To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.
--Bp. Stillingfleet.(Naut.) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: douse)
Usage examples of "doused".
The collapse of th~ left pocketed across her threshold doused her bare ankles in snow.
Blank as cooled glass, she stamped down her traitorous, cringing unease, raised her jewel on its chain, and doused its bared facets in the surging, live current of the spell.
He hurled its foamy contents to silence the ridicule and doused their small pocket of decorum.
A man who preferred his grudges blood fresh, Mearn doused pricked temper to taciturn silence time and again, while the courtiers spun to their hatreds like weathercocks.
Brass hoops slid on the rod and a heavy fall of velvet doused the candlelight down to a slit.
Riled as a cat doused in rainfall, Mearn capped the blaze of his temper.
The brig tossed stem to stem in long, rolling corkscrews, doused under back-fallen arcs of carved spray.
Clad in th~~ length fall of her robe, her porcelain shoulders doused under ink snarls of hair, she strode on bare feet from her cabin.
The sack burst open and the clouds of flour doused some of the flames.
One of the firemen doused everyone with water then directed the hose back on the entrance again.
Suslev doused the flame with a curse and stuffed the cables in his pocket.
A small fire flickered and it was quickly doused, everyone aware of the gas danger.
Danny parked across the street, doused his headbeams and scoped out the only possible access: side steps leading up to a flimsy-looking door.
He checked the lock and flipped a switch that doused the carport lights, backed the Rolls out and hung a U-turn, then headed west on Sunset.
Claire hit switches, doused the lights and snuggled into him, legs curled under a swell of skirt.