English-Thai Dictionary

douse

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DOUSE

v.t.[Gr. ] 1. To thrust or plunge into water.
2. In seamens language, to strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly. Douse the top-sail.

 

DOUSE

v.i.To fall suddenly into water.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DOUSE

Douse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doused; p. pr. & vb. n. Dousing.] Etym: [Cf. Dowse, and OD. donsen to strike with the fist on the back, Sw. dunsa to fall down violently and noisily; perh. akin to E. din. ]

 

1. To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse. Bp. Stillingfleet.

 

2. (Naut. )

 

Defn: To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail.

 

DOUSE

DOUSE Douse, v. i.

 

Defn: To fall suddenly into water. Hudibras.

 

DOUSE

Douse, v. t. Etym: [AS. dwæscan. (Skeat.)]

 

Defn: To put out; to extinguish. [Slang ] " To douse the glim. " Sir W. Scott.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

douse

douse |dous daʊs |(also dowse ) ▶verb [ with obj. ] pour a liquid over; drench: he doused the car with gasoline and set it on fire. • extinguish (a fire or light ): stewards appeared and the fire was doused | figurative : nothing could douse her sudden euphoria. • Sailing lower (a sail ) quickly. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: perhaps imitative, influenced by souse, or perhaps from dialect douse ‘strike, beat, ’ from Middle Dutch and Low German dossen.

 

Oxford Dictionary

douse

douse |daʊs | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 pour a liquid over; drench: he doused the car with petrol and set it on fire. 2 extinguish (a fire or light ): stewards appeared and the fire was doused | figurative : nothing could douse her sudden euphoria. 3 Sailing lower (a sail ) quickly. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: perhaps imitative, influenced by souse, or perhaps from dialect douse ‘strike, beat ’, from Middle Dutch and Low German dossen.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

douse

douse verb 1 sprayers doused the fields next to us with pesticides: drench, soak, saturate, wet, splash, slosh. 2 a guard doused the flames: extinguish, put out, quench, smother, snuff (out ).

 

Oxford Thesaurus

douse, dowse

douse, dowse verb 1 a mob doused the thieves with petrol: drench, soak, souse, saturate, drown, flood, inundate, deluge, wet, splash, slosh, hose down. 2 a guard doused the flames with a fire extinguisher: extinguish, put out, quench, stamp out, smother, beat out, dampen down; blow out, snuff out; Scottish dout.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

douse

douse /daʊs /動詞 他動詞 1 〈火に 〉水を大量にかけて消す .2 【液体を 】〈人 物 〉に大量に浴びせる «with » ; 【液体で 】〈人 物 〉を浸す, ずぶぬれにする «in » .3 〈明かりなど 〉を消す .