Verb

• S: (v) douse, put out (put out, as of a candle or a light) "Douse the lights"
• S: (v) douse, dowse (wet thoroughly)
• S: (v) dip, douse, duck (dip into a liquid) "He dipped into the pool"
• S: (v) dunk, dip, souse, plunge, douse (immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate) "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint"
• S: (v) douse (lower quickly) "douse a sail"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• sentence frame
• S: (v) douse, dowse (slacken) "douse a rope"
• S: (v) drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse (cover with liquid; pour liquid onto) "souse water on his hot face"