| 单词 | dowsing |
| 释义 | dowsing (once / 109439 pages) n WORD FAMILY dowse: dowsed, dowser, dowses, dowsing+/dowser: dowsers USAGE EXAMPLESMs. Phillips came into the house carrying “dowsing rods,” crooked rods that are traditionally used as divination tools for finding buried treasure or water. Wall Street Journal(Oct 27, 2016) How could anyone actually treat dowsing, UFOs and alien abductions seriously? Washington Post(Aug 31, 2016) The thing they had called a “finder” was probably some sort of dowsing compass. Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind(2007) n searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod Syn|Hyper dowse, rhabdomancy divination, foretelling, fortune telling, soothsaying the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means |
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