Crossword clues for dousing
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
n. The act by which something is doused. vb. (present participle of douse English)
WordNet
n. the act of wetting something by submerging it [syn: submersion, immersion, ducking]
Wikipedia
Dousing is the practice of making something or someone wet by throwing liquid over them, e.g., by pouring water, generally cold, over oneself. A related practice is ice swimming. Some consider cold water dousing to be a form of asceticism.
Usage examples of "dousing".
Jim Garfield and the others was pulling him out of the bresh and dousing him in the creek to wash the blood off.
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.
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.
The First had perfected this execution technique-anesthetizing traitors, wrapping them in a gauze wick, dousing them with an accelerant, and lighting them aflame.
Aguirrez had blood in his eyes as he savored the prospect of dousing El Brasero's fire.
These dousings may not succeed at first, but if they are repeated frequently, the ants will finally move.
The magic contained in its pages had seen her through some tough times and had survived all kinds of dangers, from fires to dousings of water to dragon breath.
The bodies of the Aurelianos were no sooner cold in their graves than Aureliano Segundo had the house lighted up again, filled with drunkards playing the accordion and dousing themselves in champagne, as if dogs and not Christians had died, and as if that madhouse which had cost her so many headaches and so many candy animals was destined to become a trash heap of perdition.
But Ducely, who was in the habit of dousing his plate with chocolate sauce in quantities that sickened the others, paused in the act of reaching for the sauce.
It dropped like a final curtain, dousing the memories, putting out the fires, clouding over the red-hot skies, blotting out the horror.
At the table in the summer-house Isabella helped Tara prepare the salads, dousing herself liberally with French dressing in the process, and when they sat down to eat Shasa had the children shrieking with laughter at his stories.
She considered digging out her insect repellant and giving herself another dousing.
Vizard had left my clinic, where Christofferson had been dousing her with hot and cold, fresh and saline water, and massaging her with searching pertinacity.