Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
douse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of wetting something by submerging it
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Examples
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Koivu added an assist, while Cristobal Huet stopped 29 shots, including 23 over the final 45 minutes in dousing the NHL's most potent offense.
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The school board has given permission to a group of Northgate High School students to conduct a poll on the idea of dousing the flame, the present symbol of the district, in favor of something that would ignite more passion.
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Bybee was questioned on whether his office gave specific authorization for reported practices such as dousing detainees with water and repetitive noise or loud music to keep prisoners awake.
CIA Overreached On Terror Suspect Interrogations, Says Key Bush Lawyer 2010
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According to the latest models, New York neighborhoods that currently flood every 100 or so years - victims of what is known as the 100-year storm, in climatologist-speak - can expect to experience this kind of dousing as frequently as every four years by 2080, in a worst-case scenario.
Archive 2007-04-01 Steve Perez 2007
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According to the latest models, New York neighborhoods that currently flood every 100 or so years - victims of what is known as the 100-year storm, in climatologist-speak - can expect to experience this kind of dousing as frequently as every four years by 2080, in a worst-case scenario.
Global Warming Threatens New York Steve Perez 2007
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We witnessed firefighters kind of dousing the remaining flames and smoke of that tractor-trailer.
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The 'Black Shirts' of Guantanamo routinely terrorize prisoners, breaking bones, gouging eyes, squeezing testicles, and 'dousing' them with chemicals.
WHITE NOISE INSANITY 2009
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I hate super-sweet things (when I make lemon curd, I leave out half the sugar), but my gentleman companion declared it “perfect” après-dousing.
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The videos show the students seated on the ground as a UC Davis police officer brandishes a red canister of pepper spray, showing it off for the crowd before dousing the seated students in a heavy, thick mist.
UC Davis Police Pepper-Spray Seated Students In Occupy Dispute (VIDEO) (UPDATES) 2011
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White also was captured on camera, certainly deliberately, with Shields next to him at the April 24 Aldo vs. Faber pay-per-view, not exactly dousing the talk that Shields might jump to the UFC.
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