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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
douse .
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Examples
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The little breaks between the actual douses, when he is being threatened by more, and the nights in his cell, waiting for them to bring him back to the torture room, are extended periods during with the threat of physical pain and suffering is ever-present.
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Yet when Elijah, the prophet of Yahweh, kills a bullock, douses the offerings with water and then calls down fire to burn up the wet offerings, it's so impressive that the people then kill the other 450 contestants.
Valerie Tarico: Is Praying Before Football Games Cheating? Valerie Tarico 2011
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Thunder booms over my head just as a racing yellow cab splashes a puddle which tsunami like completely douses a young father pushing his three wheeled stroller.
New Routine Tim Young 2012
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The little breaks between the actual douses, when he is being threatened by more, and the nights in his cell, waiting for them to bring him back to the torture room, are extended periods during with the threat of physical pain and suffering is ever-present.
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Agence France Presse/Getty Images A Japanese fire truck douses reactor No. 3 at the Daiichi plant in an effort to cool it.
Japan Plant Had Troubled History Rebecca Smith 2011
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In one swift move, she withdraws the shucker from Brad's leg, gives Jane her EpiPen shot and douses Max with a bucket of water before coolly settling in to watch The Lincoln Lawyer.
Top Moments: Flash-Dancing with Nancy Grace and The Good Wife's Sexy Tease 2011
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In the old cemetery where we last saw Vicki and her friends partying, Damon finishes drinking from her friends and douses their bodies with liquor.
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In the old cemetery where we last saw Vicki and her friends partying, Damon finishes drinking from her friends and douses their bodies with liquor.
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His Carmen Suite (1967), written for the Cuban National Ballet with his ballerina wife in the title role, douses Bizet's score in a sugar water of bongos, vibraphone and other, often witty, percussive invention.
Tristan und Isolde; LSO/Gergiev Fiona Maddocks 2010
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How about if somebody (science fair project, kids?) cooks a store-bought preformed beef patty and fries some matchstick fries, douses both with salt and sticks the burger in a standard grocery-store bun -- and lets the concoction sit alongside the Happy Meal for a few months?
Is that right? The McDonald's Happy Meal project Jennifer LaRue Huget 2010
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