douching

verb

present participle of douche
as in flowing

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for douching
  1. flowing
  2. gushing
  3. hosing
  4. streaming
  5. rushing
  6. drenching
  7. saturating
  8. flooding
Verb
  • Another key feature are the balconies overlooking the gently flowing Shirakawa River.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The site says consistency matters more than duration and that practitioners can work up to 1 to 2 hours a day, though even 1-minute breaks between tasks help keep energy flowing.
    — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of flowing
Verb
  • About 30 miles north of the Texas border, toxic wastewater was gushing from the ground outside the small city of Ardmore.
    — Nick Bowlin, ProPublica, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The Queens rapper continued the love affair, gushing about the president.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of gushing
Verb
  • By the afternoon, only a handful of LAFD crew members remained at the site, replaced by private firefighters who had taken over hosing down the building interior.
    — Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • The expert suggests hosing them with water for a thorough clean as flies can be attracted to lingering food waste, odors, and residues.
    — Maria Sabella, The Spruce, 23 June 2026
Definition of hosing
Verb
  • In mid-October, Netflix laid off around 1,000 employees, or 6 percent of its workforce, in the streaming giant’s largest job cuts since 2022.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Fielder, for those unfamiliar with his work, is a comedian, best known for his Comedy Central series (currently streaming on HBO) Nathan for You.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of streaming
Verb
  • Simply put, Miami’s pass defense and run defense were outclassed by New England’s passing offense and rushing offense in the second half.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Many existing clients began rushing to move their eggs and embryos to Albania or arrange last-minute retrievals.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of rushing
Verb
  • One system is already drenching Texas and another will approach Arizona this weekend.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Pattern-Drenching Following the same concept as color-drenching, pattern-drenching is a bold way to cover blank surfaces with colorful art and designs.
    — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of drenching
Verb
  • The company has also demonstrated clone and fetch operations saturating 10-gigabit-per-second network connections.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Hazardous floods could occur if back-to-back storms dump heavy rains over several days, saturating the soil in the mountains and filling reservoirs.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of saturating
Verb
  • Early Monday morning, the Gila River crested more than 2 feet higher than the level capable of flooding several homes and businesses on the north sides of Solomon, Safford and Thatcher, Arizona, according to the National Weather Service.
    — Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Benally said his parents, both in their 60s, have lived in the area all their lives and have never seen flooding this severe.
    — Christopher Weber, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of flooding
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