dowse
Meaning of dowse
verb
- practise dowsing.
water is easy to dowse for
late 17th century: of unknown origin.
verb
variant spelling of douse.
verb- pour a liquid over; drench.
he doused the car with petrol and set it on fire
- extinguish (a fire or light).
stewards appeared and the fire was doused
nothing could douse her sudden euphoria
- lower (a sail) quickly.
mid 16th century: perhaps imitative; compare souse.
Information about dowse
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of dowse is: dowses.
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Hyphenation of dowse
dowse
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- dowse is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
dowse synonyms
Meaning dowsing:
Meaning douse:
Meaning drench:
drench, douse, soak, sop, souse
Meaning cause (something) to become thoroughly soaked with water or other liquid so that no more can be absorbed:
Meaning die through submersion in and inhalation of water:
Meaning cover or submerge (an area) with water in a flood:
Meaning overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with:
Meaning overwhelm with a flood:
Meaning cover or touch with liquid; moisten:
Meaning cause (liquid) to strike or fall on something in irregular drops:
Meaning (of liquid in a container) move irregularly with a splashing sound:
Meaning cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine:
Meaning extinguish (a fire):
Meaning extinguish (a fire) by covering it:
Meaning extinguish (a fire or light):
Anagrams of dowse
Words that rhyme with dowse
owse, bowse, chowse, blowse, lowse, mowse, adrowse, bedrowse, browse, drowse, growse, overbrowse, sowse, stowse, towse
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