Douse

Definition: Douse

Douse

Verb

1. Put out, as of a candle or a light; "Douse the lights.".

2. Wet thoroughly.

3. Dip into a liquid: "He dipped into the pool".

4. Immerse into a liquid; "dunk the bread into the soup".

5. Lower quickly; "douse a sail".

6. Slacken; "douse a rope".

7. Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face".

Date "douse" was first used: 1600. (references)

Note: Douse \Douse\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Doused; Dousing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Douse

Synonyms: dip (v), dowse (v), drench (v), duck (v), dunk (v), plunge (v), put out (v), soak (v), sop (v), souse (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insulation, Fire extinction	Extinguish; damp, slack, quench, smother; put out, stamp out; douse, snuff, snuff out, blow out.
Plunge	Submerge, submerse; immerse; douse, sink, engulf, send to the bottom.
Punishment	Lash, scaffold; (instrument of punishment); imprisonment; (restraint); transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys; beating;Verb: flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow; (impulse); stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade.
Water	Add water, water, wet; moisten; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Douse

English words defined with "douse": Doused. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Douse your nose and run like crazy! (Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer; writing credit: Robert May; Romeo Muller)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Water; car wash; garden hose; bathe; bespatter; broadcast; dabble; dash; douse; drench; drown; get wet; moisten; paddle; plash; plunge; shower; slop; slosh; soak; sop; spatter; splatter; spray; spread; sprinkle; squirt; squirt; strew; throw; wade; wallow.		Fire; extinguisher; extinguish; put out; fireman; firefighter; douse; dout; drown; out; quench; smother; snuff out; stamp out; stifle; suffocate.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Douse" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 78.57% of the time. "Douse" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	78.57%	33	60,273
Noun (singular)	11.9%	5	157,705
Lexical Verb (base form)	9.52%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	42	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "douse" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Douse	Last name	1,000	14,349
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expression using "douse": Douse the glim. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "douse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ul velën me ngut, shuaj (beat out, blanket, blow out, Burke, clean off, damp, delete, drown, efface, erase, expunge, extinguish, kill, obliterate, out, quash, quell, quench, rake out, remove, scratch out, settle, slack, slake, suppress, turn off, ungear, wipe, wipe away, wipe off, wither), njom (baste, dabble, dew, Dunk, macerate, moisten, Rait, ret, saturate, soak, souse, steepen, wet), mbyll frengjinë, lag (dabble, damp, dampen, drench, get wet, moisten, soak, souse, wash, wet), i hedh ujë (dilute, pour water into), fus në ujë (shrink, souse), fik (destroy, extinguish, fig, fig tree, out, ruin, slake, switch off, turn off, ungear, wipe out). (various references)

Arabic		‏نضح بالماء, ‏غمر (deluge, dunk, engulf, float, flood, flow, gulf, immerse, immersion, inundate, inundation, load, overflow, overwhelm, sluice, souse, submerge, suffuse, swamp, wash), ‏غطس (dip, dive, duck, immerse, immersion, plunge, plunk, sink, submerge), ‏خلع ثيابه (peel), ‏أطفأ (blow out, extinguish, go out, put out, quench, snuff out, stamp out, switch off, turn off). (various references)

Bulgarian		угасявам (extinguish, put out, snuff out), удрям (bang against, bash, beat, biff, blast, bruise, bust, catch, hammer, heel, hit, impact, jam on, knap, knock, lash, lay, peg at, plump, poke, pole-ax, pound, ram, set, shoot, slam, slam on, smash, smite, strike, strike in, thunder, wallop, zap), свалям (bring down, cast off, doff, down, drop, drop off, get down, get off, land, lay, let off, overthrow, prang, prostrate, pull down, pull off, put down, put off, reach down, remove, ring down, rip down, rush, set down, shuck off, shuffle off, stretch, take down, take off, tear away, tear down, tear off, throw off, turn down, unbelt, uncap, unhorse, unship, vail), спускам бързо, цопвам (flop in, plop, plump, plunk), затварям (case, cicatrize, close, constrain, enclose, gaol, hem, house, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, latch, lock, lock up, mew, obturate, pen, prison, pull to, restrain, screw up, seal off, shut, shut away, shut in, shut up, stop, turn off), потапям (bathe, plunge, steep, whelm), поливам с вода. (various references)

Czech		zhasnout (black out, fizzle out, go off, go out, pack up, snuff out, switch off, turn off, turn out), zhasit (blow out, extinguish, put out), uhasit (assuage, extinguish, put down, quench, sate, satiate, satisfy, slake), smoèit. (various references)

Farsi		خیس کردن (Drown, Ret, Sluice, Swill), روی چیزی اب ریختن , دراب یاچیزدیگری فروبردن . (various references)

French		tremper, plonger dans l'eau, inonder, éteindre. (various references)

German		begießen (baste, dowse, pour water on, to douse, to dowse, water). (various references)

Greek		βρέχω (drench, rain, wet), βρέχομαι (to get wet), βουτώ (dip, dive, duck, immerse, pick pockets, pinch, plunge, sop, steal, steep, submerge, submerse, take a dive). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"טביל (dip, immerse, sop). (various references)

Hungarian		bevon (coat, suffuse, to call in, to clew up, to do over, to draw into, to film, to get down, to glaze, to revet, to revoke, to sheathe, to wash), bemárt (dip, to dip, to steep). (various references)

Indonesian		menyirami (dabble, hose, water). (various references)

Italian		spegnere (be extinguished, blow out, cut off, die down, extinguish, fade, go out, pass away, put, put off, put out, quench, shut off, slake, snuff, stub out, switch off, turn out), immergere in acqua, gettare acqua su. (various references)

Manx		thummey (dip, dive, duck; diving, ducking, immerse, immersion, lunge, pitch, plunge, soak, sop, steep, steeping, submerge, submersion), lhieggey shiaull, bashlaghey. (various references)

Pig Latin		ouseday

Portuguese		destruir (blast, butcher, consume, defeat, demolish, depredate, destroy, devour, dilapidate, eat, end, explode, extinguish, finish off, havoc, impair, kill, mine, obliterate, override, overwhelm, poison, puncture, quash, quench, rase, ravage, raze, reave, reive, ruin, sabotage, shatter, slay, subvert, tear down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wrack, wreck), dar fim, temperar (anneal, attemper, chasten, flavor, flavour, harden, moderate, quench, sauce, season, spice, temper, zest), reprimir (allay, arrest, bit, bridle, check, coerce, constrain, control, cork, forbear, gulp, halt, keep back, keep down, overbear, quell, quench, refrain, rein in, repress, restrain, stifle, stop, subdue, suppress, throttle, tutor, vanquish), mergulhar em água (quench, souse), extinguir (die, do for, exterminate, extinguish, fade, jugulate, obliterate, out, put out, quash, quench, smother, wipe out), esfriar bruscamente (quench), arrefecer (discourage, freshen, quench, rub up), apagar (abrade, dele, delete, efface, erase, extinguish, obliterate, out, put out, quench, rub out, scrape off, turn off, turn out, wipe off, zap). (various references)

Romanian		uda (bedew, damp, dip, drench, irrigate, moisten, soak, souse, sparge, splash, spray, sprinkle, squirt, stain, steep, wash, water, wet), stinge lumina (switch off the light, turn out the light), scufunda în apã, muia (bathe, dip, liquefy, ret, soak, sop, steep, thaw, wet). (various references)

Russian		погружать (dip, immerse, sank, sink, soused, souses, submerge). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zagnjuriti (duck, submerge), ugasiti (extinguish, put out, quench, slake, snuff, switch off, turn off, turn out), politi (pour on). (various references)

Spanish		zambullir (souse), mojar (dabble, damp, dampen, dip, drench, dunk, moisten, water, wet), lavar (Buddle, dip, do, launder, lave, rinse, shampoo, sluice, swill, wash, wash down, wash out, wash up), encender la luz (turn on the light), apagar (beat out, blow out, extinguish, kill, mute, puff out, put off, put out, silence, slake, smother, stub out, turn off, turn out). (various references)

Swedish		gå med slagruta (divine, dowse). (various references)

Turkish		suya sokmak (dowse, soak), söndürmek (attenuate, damp, damp down, dampen, deflate, dowse, extinguish, hydrate, kill, put out, quench, slack, slacken, slake, snuff out, suffocate, switch off, trample out, turn off, turn out), üzerine su serpmek, ıslatmak (bedrabble, bedraggle, damp, dampen, dowse, drench, imbrue, moisten, moisturize, saturate, soak, sop, souse, sprinkle, steep, swim, water, wet). (various references)

Ukrainian		сильний глухий удар, занурюватися (dip, dive, dowse, merge, plunge, swamp), занурювати (dip, dowse, drown, duck, enwrap, immerse, plunge, steep). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Middle Dutch	1100-1500	dossen. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "douse": doused, douser, dousers, douses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Douse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adous, Daouel, Daoust, dause, dauze, deese, diose, dise, doase, doaze, dofus, dogus, Doise, D'oise, dojums, donse, doose, dooze, dorus, dosi, douc, doucer, Douds, douhe, doure, dous, doush, doushe, dousie, doust, doute, d'outre, Douven, Douwe, douwse, douxe, douz, douzen, douzer, douzet, Doxsie, D'oysel, Droese, drous, drouse, drousie, drusen, druze, dugse, Dumuzi, duoce, dusa, duse, dusen, dusey, dusi, fouse, jouse, odue, wouse. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "douse" (pronounced dou"s)
3	d ou" s	dowse.
2	-ou" s	blouse, bouse, Crouse, espouse, Gauss, grouse, house, louse, mouse, spouse, youse.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-o-s-u"
	-1 letter: does, dose, dues, duos, odes, ouds, sued, udos, used.
	-2 letters: doe, dos, due, duo, eds, ode, ods, oes, ose, oud, sod, sou, sue, udo, use.
	-3 letters: de, do, ed, es, od, oe, os, so, us.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-o-s-u"
	+1 letter: boused, doused, douser, douses, escudo, exodus, housed, loused, moused, odeums, ousted, pseudo, roused, souled, souped, soured, soused, toused, undoes, uredos.
	+2 letters: aroused, bloused, choused, coursed, defocus, delouse, detours, devious, devours, doubles, douches, dourest, dousers, drogues, duellos, duteous, enduros, escudos, focused, fondues, gourdes, groused, hideous, hocused, jousted, loudens, loudest, modules, moussed, nodules, ordures, outdoes, outside, outsped, pseudos, redouts, resound, rosebud, rousted, scoured, scouted, shouted, snouted, soughed, sounded, sounder, sourced, southed, spoused, spouted, subcode, swouned, tedious, testudo, tousled, tuxedos, undoers, unposed, unsowed.
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