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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb douse has 7 senses

• douse(v = verb.weather) put out - put out, as of a candle or a light; "Douse the lights"
is one way to blow out, extinguish, quench, snuff out
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

• douse(v = verb.stative) dowse - wet thoroughly; Array
is one way to wet
Sample sentence:
Water and alcohol douse the cloth

• douse(v = verb.motion) dip, duck - dip into a liquid; "He dipped into the pool"
is one way to dip, douse, dunk, plunge, souse
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something PP

• douse(v = verb.contact) dip, dunk, plunge, souse - immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint"
is one way to immerse, plunge
Derived form noun dousing₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

• douse(v = verb.change) Array - lower quickly; "douse a sail"
is one way to furl, roll up
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

• douse(v = verb.change) dowse - slacken; "douse a rope"
is one way to remit, slacken
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

• douse(v = verb.change) dowse, drench, soak, sop, souse - cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"
is one way to wet
Sample sentence:
They douse the cloth with water and alcohol

OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

douse

bang, baptize, bash, bat, belt, blow out, bop, bury, cast off, choke, crack, damp, deluge, dip, doff, drench, drop, drown, duck, dunk, engulf, extinguish, immerge, immerse, inundate, merge, out, overwhelm, plash, plunge in water, put off, put out, quench, remove, sink, slack, slam, slip out of, slop, slosh, smack, smash, smother, snuff, snuff out, soak, sop, souse, spatter, splatter, splosh, splurge, spurtle, stamp out, step out of, stifle, submerge, submerse, swash, take off, throw off, undo, unwrap, wet, whelm

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Punishment

N punishment, punition, chastisement, chastening, correction, castigation, discipline, infliction, trial, judgment, penalty, retribution, thunderbolt, Nemesis, requital, penology, retributive justice, lash, scaffold, imprisonment, transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism, penal servitude, hard labor, galleys, beating, flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear, blow, stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel, slap, slap in the face, wipe, douse, coup de grace, torture, rack, picket, picketing, dragonnade, capital punishment, execution, lethal injection, the gas chamber, hanging, electrocution, rail-riding, scarpines, decapitation, decollation, garrotte, garrotto, crucifixion, impalement, firing squad, martyrdom, auto-da-fe, noyade, happy dispatch, hara-kiri, seppuku, drinking the hemlock, punishing, penal, punitory, punitive, inflictive, castigatory, punished, Int, a la lanterne!, culpan paena premit comes, eating the bitter bread of banishment, gravis ira regum est semper, sera tamen tacitis paena venit pedibus, suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo.

Plunge

VB plunge, dip, souse, duck, dive, plump, take a plunge, take a header, make a plunge, bathe, submerge, submerse, immerse, douse, sink, engulf, send to the bottom, get out of one's depth, go to the bottom, go down like a stone, drop like a lead balloon, founder, welter, wallow.

Water

VB be watery, reek, add water, water, wet, moisten, dilute, dip, immerse, merge, immerge, submerge, plunge, souse, duck, drown, soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench, dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge, syringe, inject, gargle.

Insulation

VB go out, die out, burn out, fizzle, extinguish, damp, slack, quench, smother, put out, stamp out, douse, snuff, snuff out, blow out, fireproof, flameproof.

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