Tra từ douse - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

verb

1. put out, as of a candle or a light
- Douse the lights
• Syn:
put out
• Hypernyms:
snuff out, blow out, extinguish, quench
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. wet thoroughly
• Syn:
dowse
• Hypernyms:
wet
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
- Water and alcohol douse the cloth
3. immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- dip the garment into the cleaning solution
- dip the brush into the paint
• Syn:
dunk, dip, souse, plunge
• Derivationally related forms:
dousing, plunge (for: plunge), plunger (for: plunge), souse (for: souse), dip (for: dip), dipper (for: dip), Dunkard (for: dunk)
• Hypernyms:
immerse, plunge
• Hyponyms:
sop, dip, duck, dabble
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP
4. dip into a liquid
- He dipped into the pool
• Syn:
dip, duck
• Derivationally related forms:
ducking (for: duck), dip (for: dip)
• Hypernyms:
dunk, dip, souse, plunge
• Verb Frames:
- Something is ----ing PP
- Somebody ----s something PP
5. lower quickly
- douse a sail
• Hypernyms:
roll up, furl
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
6. slacken
- douse a rope
• Syn:
dowse
• Hypernyms:
slacken, remit
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
7. cover with liquid;
pour liquid onto
- souse water on his hot face
• Syn:
drench, dowse, soak, sop, souse
• Derivationally related forms:
souse (for: souse), sousing (for: souse), soaker (for: soak), soaking (for: soak)
• Hypernyms:
wet
• Hyponyms:
brine, bedraggle, draggle, bate, ret,
sluice, flush
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
- They douse the cloth with water and alcohol