dousing
Speech parts
1. dousing - Noun
2. dousing - Verb
Meaning
of Douse
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Examples
Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.
As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department.
A dozen fire engines and RDMC personnel are engaged in dousing the flames, Santosh Kadam, chief of the Thane Municipal Corporation's Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) told news agency PTI.
Bill’s stylish beige linen trousers had shrunk with the dousing and were clinging to his legs like an unseemly pair of tights.
As the giant of Africa, I have not seen or heard diplomatic moves geared towards dousing the tension.
A thug who threatened to set a car alight after dousing it in petrol with four people inside has been jailed.