| 例句 | dousingverb1present participle of douse to rid oneself of (a garment)in those days a gentleman would douse his hat when going indoors dousingverb2also dowsingpresent participle of dousedoffing, peeling (off), putting off, removing, shrugging off, taking off husking, sheddingkicking (off)disrobing, stripping, undressing donning, putting on, slipping (into), throwing (on) wearingappareling(or apparelling), arraying, attiring, bedecking, clothing, dressing, garbing, rigging, robing, suitingto cause to cease burningdouse the campfire before leaving in the morning blanketing, extinguishing, putting out, quenching, snuffing (out) choking, smothering, suffocatingblowing out, rubbing out, snubbing (out), stamping (out), stubbing firing, igniting, inflaming(also enflaming), kindling, lightingto make wetthe heavy rains thoroughly doused the tourists strolling the town streets bathing, bedraggling, drenching, drowning, soaking, soddening, sopping, sousing, washing, watering, waterlogging, water-soaking, wetting, wetting down aspersing, bedewing, dampening, damping, drizzling, humidifying, hydrating, misting, moistening, moisturizing, showering, sprinklingdeluging, flooding, hosing (down), inundating, overflowingsubmerging, swampingsplashingimpregnating, saturating, steepingflushing, irrigating, laving, rinsing, sloshing, sluicingdipping, ducking, dunkingrehydrating, rewashing, rewetting dehydrating, desiccating, drying, parching, scorching, searing dewatering, evaporating, freeze-dryingdrip-drying, wringingdehumidifyingto sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquiddouse the grapes in water to remove any grit dipping, ducking, dunking, immersing, sopping, sousing, submerging, submersing bathing, moistening, soaking, steeping, wettingdrenching, drowning, floodingdiving, plunging, thrusting |