dousing
dow sing
- n the act of wetting something by submerging it
- v put out, as of a candle or a light
- v wet thoroughly
- v dip into a liquid
- v immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- v lower quickly
- v slacken
- v cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- For nine days, Tropical Storm Fay drenched nine states, entering and exiting Florida four times alone while dousing portions of it with more than two feet of rain.
- The second suspect who received severe burns after ramming the gas-packed Jeep into the terminal building and dousing himself in petrol before setting himself alight, according .
- But millions of Kenyans understood the lesson that Maathai had taught them: that prosperity depends just as much on caring for a fragile planet as on dousing human conflict.