Definitions for douse

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Spelling: [dous]

IPA: /daʊs/

Douse is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in douse (deosu).

Definitions for douse

noun

1. British Dialect. a stroke or blow.

verb (used with object)

1. to plunge into water or the like; drench:
2. to splash or throw water or other liquid on:
3. to extinguish:
4. Informal. to remove; doff.
5. Nautical. to lower or take in (a sail, mast, or the like) suddenly. to slacken (a line) suddenly. to stow quickly.

verb (used without object)

1. to plunge or be plunged into a liquid.

Origin of douse

First recorded in 1590-1600; origin uncertain

Examples for douse

Jack was about to douse the light, but Hemming told him to let it burn on.

douse your glim, mate; we'll be having them Zeppelins all over us.

The halon-based fire-suppression systems used by commercial jets in these zones are not able to douse such fires.

It was fear of cancer and a douse of hypochondria that brought me to 23andMe in the first place.

douse my to'-gallant top-lights but we'll have a skirmish now sure.

One security guard reported that the fire extinguisher failed to work when he tried to douse the flames.

Fourteen years later, two rookie cops heard gunfire and saw a now 14-year-old douse coming toward them, that very gun in hand.

If I could only lay in a crick—roll in it—douse my face in it—soak my clothes in it!

I mind a sentence in it that must have been a douse of cauld watter—toch!

douse the whole thing with some olive oil and add Himalayan pink sea salt to taste.