0 present participle of douse --
1 to make something or someone wet by throwing a lot of liquid over it, him, or her: --
We watched as demonstrators doused a car in/with petrol and set it alight.
After dousing himself again, he manages to escape the local predators with mostly minor injuries.
Traditionally, the combatants would resort to dirty tricks to win, including dousing the opposing team with a shower of ancient eggs and flour.
After dousing themselves with an unpredictable water hose, they assemble the ingredients for a five gallon batch of beer in the huge tank.
Although successful in dousing the flames, he later died of smoke inhalation.
Gomi is notorious for dousing his enemies as well as innocent bystanders with toxic sludge as an act of vandalism.
Firefighters soon arrived on the scene and started dousing the blaze with water in an attempt to extinguish the fire.
Vinegar dousing increases toxin delivery and worsens symptoms of stings from the nematocysts of this species.
By the 1984 season, only the word water led to a dousing or watering; the word wet no longer did so.
