| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Douse.[Websters]
2. To have overturned, immersed, drowned or hardened. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be soused. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have smothered or stifled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To be slaked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be tarnished. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have moistened or annealed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have dunked or dowsed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To be macerated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be chastened, unpicked, unfixed or uncoupled.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb douse.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (douse) | 1. Put out, as of a candle or a light; "Douse the lights".[Wordnet]. 2. Wet thoroughly.[Wordnet]. 3. Dip into a liquid.[Wordnet]. 4. Lower quickly; "douse a sail".[Wordnet]. 5. Slacken; "douse a rope".[Wordnet]. 6. Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto.[Wordnet]. 7. 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".[Wordnet]. 8. To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.[Websters]. 9. To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail.[Websters]. 10. To fall suddenly into water.[Websters]. 11. To put out; to extinguish.[Websters]. 12. Base verb from the following inflections: dousing, doused, douses, douser, dousers, dousingly and dousedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DOUSED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1785. (references) |
Specialty Definition: douse
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To thrust or plunge into water.. | 2: [Verb] In seamens language, to strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly. Douse the top-sail.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Geography | Douse is geographically located in South Africa. Its features include a farmstead (the buildings and adjacent service areas of a farm), and a hill (a rounded elevation of limited extent rising above the surrounding land with local relief of less than 300m). Its geographic coordinates are 31.15 degrees South latitude and 18.8 degrees East longitude. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] To fall suddenly into water. (references) | 2: [Verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse. (references) | 3: [Verb] To put out; to extinguish. (references) | 4: [Verb] To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail. (references) |
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Common Expressions: douse
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Douse the glim | Put out the light. [Slang]. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: douse
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Douse the Glim | Literature | 1: " `And so you would turn honest, Captain Goffe, agrazing, would ye,' said an old weather-beaten pirate who had but one eye; `what though he... made my eye dowse the glim... he is an honest man'..." - The Pirate, chap. xxxiii. 2: Put out the light; also knock out a man's eye. To douse is to lower in haste, as "Douse the top-sail" Glim, gleam, glimmer, are variants of the same word. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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| William Douse | 3 | William Douse | 3 | |
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