douching

Definition of douchingnext
present participle of douche
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Verb
  • Jackie Tohn looks elegant in a white button-down top and black flowing skirt at the Venice Family Clinic HEART Gala in Culver City, California, on April 18.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
  • State-level commitments in California, Maryland, and Massachusetts, along with federal apprenticeship grants, are also flowing into trades training, per JLL.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Ken writes like a poet, gushing about his love for dinosaurs and making a stirring argument for why studying dinosaurs means something.
    Steve Brusatte, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Completely sheltered in dense vegetation, the gushing waterfall plunges over a cliff into a large basin that’s perfect for swimming.
    Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Bagging up trash tightly and hosing out dirty trash cans can also help.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2026
  • As buses loaded with evacuees pulled onto the road, members of the skeleton crew started gathering their belongings and hosing down buildings.
    New York Times, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The entire season will start streaming the next day, June 18, on Hulu.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Netflix can continue to grow by raising prices over having to add subscribers, as the streaming giant shifts its focus toward profitability over user count, Wolfe Research reassured investors.
    Sean Conlon,Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • His friends can be seen rushing to him and carrying his body away.
    Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
  • And after spending all that money on Jaelan Phillips and picking two edge rushers in their first three picks in 2025, choosing another pass-rushing linebacker like Mesidor in the first round doesn’t make sense to me.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 21 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Miami Beach Pride returned to Ocean Drive this weekend drenching everything with color.
    Alie Skowronski, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Embrace a color-drenching moment Small spaces and color drenching go hand in hand!
    Lindsey Mather, Architectural Digest, 7 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Avoid saturating the mattress — over-wetting is one of the most common mistakes people make, and excess moisture trapped inside the mattress can lead to mold growth, creating an entirely new allergen problem.
    Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Avoid puddling or saturating the soil.
    David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • But bad actors have learned to weaponize that same amendment as a shield, flooding the information ecosystem with content designed to discreetly destabilize our communities.
    Julian Baron, Baltimore Sun, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Widespread damaging wind gusts and flooding rainfall are still to come as storms hit areas already battered by a multi-day onslaught of twisters, massive hail and historic flooding.
    Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2026
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“Douching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/douching. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.

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