Definitions for douses

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douses douse

Spelling: [dous]

IPA: /daʊs/

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

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in douses (deossu).

Definitions for douses

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 douses

First recorded in 1590-1600; origin uncertain

Examples for douses

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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