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dousing

verb , present participle of douse

Synonyms and Antonyms of dousing

to rid oneself of (a garment)
  • in those days a gentleman would douse his hat when going indoors
Synonyms of dousing

doffing, peeling (off), putting off, removing, shrugging off, taking off
Words Related to dousing

husking, shedding

kicking (off)

disrobing, stripping, undressing
Near Antonyms of dousing

wearing

appareling (or apparelling), arraying, attiring, bedecking, clothing, dressing, garbing, rigging, robing, suiting
Antonyms of dousing

donning, putting on, slipping (into), throwing (on)
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dousing

verb , present participle of douse
variants: also dowsing

Synonyms and Antonyms of dousing

1 to cause to cease burning
  • douse the campfire before leaving in the morning
Synonyms of dousing

blanketing, extinguishing, putting out, quenching, snuffing (out)
Words Related to dousing

choking, smothering, suffocating

blowing out, rubbing out, snubbing (out), stamping (out), stubbing
Antonyms of dousing

firing, igniting, inflaming (also enflaming), kindling, lighting
2 to make wet
  • the heavy rains thoroughly doused the tourists strolling the town streets
Synonyms of dousing

bathing, bedraggling, drenching, drowning, soaking, soddening, sopping, sousing, washing, watering, waterlogging, water-soaking, wetting, wetting down
Words Related to dousing

aspersing, bedewing, dampening, damping, drizzling, humidifying, hydrating, misting, moistening, moisturizing, showering, sprinkling

deluging, flooding, hosing (down), inundating, overflowing

submerging, swamping

splashing

impregnating, saturating, steeping

flushing, irrigating, laving, rinsing, sloshing, sluicing

dipping, ducking, dunking

rehydrating, rewashing, rewetting
Near Antonyms of dousing

dewatering, evaporating, freeze-drying

drip-drying, wringing

dehumidifying
Antonyms of dousing

dehydrating, desiccating, drying, parching, scorching, searing
3 to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid
  • douse the grapes in water to remove any grit
Synonyms of dousing

dipping, ducking, dunking, immersing, sopping, sousing, submerging, submersing
Words Related to dousing

bathing, moistening, soaking, steeping, wetting

drenching, drowning, flooding

diving, plunging, thrusting

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