Synonyms for douse
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : dous |
Phonetic Transcription : daÊŠs |
Top 10 synonyms for douse Other synonyms for the word douse
Définition of douse
Origin :- 1550s, "to strike, punch," which is perhaps from Middle Dutch dossen "beat forcefully" or a similar Low German word.
- Meaning "to strike a sail in haste" is recorded from 1620s; that of "to extinguish (a light)" is from 1785; perhaps influenced by dout (1520s), an obsolete contraction of do out (cf. doff, don). OED regards the meaning "to plunge into water, to throw water over" (c.1600) as a separate word, of unknown origin, though admitting there may be a connection of some sort. Related: Doused; dousing.
- verb drench, extinguish with liquid
- Jack was about to douse the light, but Hemming told him to let it burn on.
- Extract from : « The Three Midshipmen » by W.H.G. Kingston
- I mind a sentence in it that must have been a douse of cauld watter—toch!
- Extract from : « The Dop Doctor » by Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
- If I could only lay in a crick—roll in it—douse my face in it—soak my clothes in it!
- Extract from : « 'Me-Smith' » by Caroline Lockhart
- Douse your glim, mate; we'll be having them Zeppelins all over us.
- Extract from : « Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914 » by Various
- Douse my to'-gallant top-lights but we'll have a skirmish now sure.
- Extract from : « Frank on the Lower Mississippi » by Harry Castlemon
- It was in payment of the fees in the great case of Parsons and Douse and some other matters.
- Extract from : « Beatrice » by H. Rider Haggard
- Let us be shocked; it is a wholesome shock, like the douse of the sea, or the buffet of the wind.
- Extract from : « Whitman » by John Burroughs
- My mind was too much occupied by the "Dead Man's Douse" for that.
- Extract from : « Down the Yellowstone » by Lewis R. Freeman
- It was a hells-bells-jingler of a rapid, that one above the "Douse."
- Extract from : « Down the Yellowstone » by Lewis R. Freeman
- But aren't you going to see me through the Dead Man's Douse?
- Extract from : « Down the Yellowstone » by Lewis R. Freeman
Antonyms for douse
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