| 单词 | douse |
| 释义 | douse (once / 7660 pages) v Use the verb douse to describe covering something with water or other liquid. When you're camping, you douse the campfire with water when you're done with it. Douse often involves water, but you could also douse your French fries in ketchup. Douse can describe the act of extinguishing a candle, or even turning off a light. You might douse your bedroom light when it's time to sleep or simply douse a candle by blowing it out. To pronounce douse correctly, remember that it rhymes with mouse. WORD FAMILYdouse: doused, douses, dousing+/dousing: dousings USAGE EXAMPLESHe grabbed a tissue, doused it with rubbing alcohol and started furiously rubbing at his fingers. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) The fire department tweeted a photo of firefighters dousing the roof from a firetruck’s elevated bucket. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) Video from WPIX-TV shows flames being doused from a fire truck’s elevated bucket. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1v wet thoroughly Syn|Hyper dowse wet cause to become wet 2v cover with liquid; pour liquid onto Syn|Hypo|Hyper dowse, drench, soak, sop, souse brine soak in brine bedraggle, dragglemake wet and dirty, as from rain batesoak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments retplace (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue flush, sluiceirrigate with water from a sluice wet cause to become wet 3v dip into a liquid Syn|Hyper dip, duck dip, dunk, plunge, souse immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate 4v immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate Syn|Hypo|Hyper dip, dunk, plunge, souse sop dip into liquid dip, duckdip into a liquid dabbledip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid immerse, plunge thrust or throw into 5v lower quickly douse a sail Hyper furl, roll up form into a cylinder by rolling 6v put out, as of a candle or a light Douse the lights Syn|Hyper put out blow out, extinguish, quench, snuff out put out, as of fires, flames, or lights 7v slacken douse a rope Syn|Hyper dowse remit, slacken make slack as by lessening tension or firmness |
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