douse
verb [T] (also dowse) /daʊs/Definition
› to make something or someone wet by throwing a lot of liquid over them: We watched as demonstrators doused a car in/with petrol and set it alight.Wet weather and wetness › to stop a fire or light from burning or shining, especially by putting water on it or by covering it with somethingStopping fires
(Definition of douse verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- bedraggled adjective
- dank adjective
- dowse verb (MAKE WET)
- drench verb
- dripping adjective
- flooded adjective (WATER)
- look like a drowned rat idiom
- moisten verb
- monsoon noun
- rainy adjective
- saturate verb (MAKE WET)
- showery adjective
- soak verb
- soaked adjective
- sopping adjective
- spongy adjective
- sweat verb
- waterlogged adjective
- wet adjective (NOT DRY)
- wet verb
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