douse
/daus/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To extinguish or put out (a light, fire, or candle): To cause a flame or source of light to stop burning.
- To plunge or immerse something briefly into a liquid: To submerge something, typically to wet, coat, or saturate it.
- To pour a liquid over something; to drench or soak: To cover something with a liquid, often suddenly or in large quantities.
Examples
- Verb:
- Please douse the campfire before we leave.
- She doused the cloth in the dye to get a deep color.
- The firefighters doused the flames with water.
Advanced Usage
- "to douse something with/in something": To pour a large amount of a liquid over something.
- The protesters were doused with water by the police.
- "to douse out": (Less common) To extinguish completely.
- He managed to douse out the small fire before it spread.
Variants and Related Words
- Dowsing (n): The practice of searching for underground water or minerals using a forked stick or similar rod. (Note: This is a homograph with a different meaning).
- Souse (v): To immerse in liquid; often used interchangeably with 'douse' for soaking, but can also mean to pickle in brine.
Synonyms
- Extinguish: To cause a fire or light to stop burning.
- Quench: To extinguish a fire or thirst.
- Immerse: To dip or submerge in a liquid.
- Drench: To wet thoroughly; to soak.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Douse down: (Informal) To extinguish or drench thoroughly.
- We need to douse down these embers to be safe.
Related Idioms
- To douse the glim: (Archaic) To put out the light.
- In the old story, the pirate told his mate to "douse the glim" to avoid being seen.
Verb
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- souse water on his hot face
- slacken
- douse a rope
- lower quickly
- douse a sail
- 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
- dip into a liquid
- He dipped into the pool
- wet thoroughly
- put out, as of a candle or a light
- Douse the lights