douse

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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  drench , dowse , soak , sop , souse , dunk , dip , plunge , duck , put out