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douse

English

  1. 🔊 slacken
    “douse a rope”
  2. 🔊 lower quickly
    “douse a sail”
  3. 🔊 wet thoroughly
  4. 🔊 put out, as of a candle or a light
    “Douse the lights”
  5. 🔊 cover with liquid
    “souse water on his hot face”
  6. 🔊 dip into a liquid
    “He dipped into the pool”
  7. 🔊 immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
    “dip the garment into the cleaning solution”

Similar words

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