What is "dowsed"

Usage examples of "dowsed".

Medics dowsed the two with fresh water, plucked away the leeches, cut away their garments, all the while injecting them with painkillers and drying them off with crumpled veils of gauze and a hot air blower.

And with his going Kate dowsed the infernal light and blessed darkness came, and the stars shone, and she escaped into peace.

I would have thrown her out, dowsed the candles and gone to bed but when Priapus is in the ascendant, there is no sense to be found in men.

At each end was a bottle of water, with which they hastily dowsed the braziers.

Toli was already on his feet, having dowsed the fire and scattered the ashes, removing any sign that they had been there.

The fire was dowsed, latrines sealed, and the whole site carefully examined until they were satisfied that it was as they had found it.

Servants ran to the candle clusters, drew them down on their cords, and dowsed them.