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dousesnounpl. of douseBritish a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrumentthose soccer hooligans need a sound douse or two from a police officer's club bangs, bashes, bats, beats, belts, biffs, blows, bops, boxes, buffets, busts, chops, claps, clips, clouts, cracks, cuffs, dabs, fillips, hacks, haymakers, hits, hooks, knocks, larrups(dialect), lashes, licks, pelts, picks, plumps, pokes, pounds, punches, raps, slams, slaps, slugs, smacks, smashes, socks, spanks, stingers, stripes, strokes, swats, swipes, switches, thuds, thumps, thwacks, wallops, welts, whacks, whams, whops(also whaps) counterblows(or counter-blows), counterpunches, counters, counterstrokes(or counter-strokes)body blows, hands, kicks, knees, lefts, one-twos, rabbit punches, right-handers, rights, roundhouses, shivers, sidewinders, sucker punches, swings, uppercutscrunchers, kayos, knockdowns, knockouts, KOsbastinadoes(or bastinades), batterings, beatings, drubbings, lickings, pastings, thrashingswallopings, whippings, whips dousesverb1present tense third-person singular of douseto rid oneself of (a garment)in those days a gentleman would douse his hat when going indoors doffs, peels (off), puts off, removes, shrugs off, takes off husks, shedskicks (off)disrobes, strips, undresses dons, puts on, slips (into), throws (on) wearsapparels, arrays, attires, bedecks, clothes, dresses, garbs, rigs, robes, suits dousesverb2also dowsespresent tense third-person singular of douseto cause to cease burningdouse the campfire before leaving in the morning blankets, extinguishes, puts out, quenches, snuffs (out) chokes, smothers, suffocatesblows out, rubs out, snubs (out), stamps (out), stubs fires, ignites, inflames(also enflames), kindles, lights to make wetthe heavy rains thoroughly doused the tourists strolling the town streets bathes, bedraggles, drenches, drowns, soaks, soddens, sops, souses, washes, waterlogs, waters, water-soaks, wets, wets down asperses, bedews, dampens, damps, drizzles, humidifies, hydrates, mists, moistens, moisturizes, showers, sprinklesdeluges, floods, hoses (down), inundates, overflowssubmerges, swampssplashesimpregnates, saturates, steepsflushes, irrigates, laves, rinses, sloshes, sluicesdips, ducks, dunksrehydrates, rewashes, rewets dehydrates, desiccates, dries, parches, scorches, sears dewaters, evaporates, freeze-driesdrip-dries, wringsdehumidifies to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquiddouse the grapes in water to remove any grit dips, ducks, dunks, immerses, sops, souses, submerges, submerses bathes, moistens, soaks, steeps, wetsdrenches, drowns, floodsdives, plunges, thrusts |