dousing

POS

Verb (usu participle)

HYPHEN

dous=ing

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun dousing has 1 sense

dousing(n = noun.act) ducking, immersion, submersion - the act of wetting something by submerging it; Array

is a kind of wetting

Derived form verb douse₄

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THESAURUS

dousing

baptism, burial, burning out, controlling, damping, dip, dipping, duck, ducking, dunking, dying, engulfment, extinction, extinguishment, fire fighting, flame-out, going out, immergence, immersion, inundation, putting out, quenching, sinking, smotheration, smothering, snuffing, souse, sousing, stifling, submergence, submersion

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