Verb: douse daws
- Extinguish a fire or light
"Douse the lights";
- put out
- Wet thoroughly
"She doused herself with cold water";
- dowse
- Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
"The rain doused us completely";
- drench, dowse, soak, sop, souse
- Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
"douse the garment into the cleaning solution";
- dunk, dip, souse, plunge
- Immerse into a liquid
"They doused the fire with water";
- dip, duck
- Lower quickly
"douse a sail"
- Slacken
"douse a rope";
- dowse
Derived forms: douses, dousing, doused
Type of: extinguish, furl, immerse, plunge, quench, remit, slacken, snuff out, wet
Encyclopedia: Douse