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We found 26 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word douse:
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General dictionaries General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. douse, douse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. douse: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  3. douse: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  4. Douse: Wiktionary [home, info]
  5. douse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  6. douse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  7. douse: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  8. Douse, douse: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  9. douse: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  10. douse: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  11. douse: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  12. Douse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  13. Douse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. douse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  15. douse: Rhymezone [home, info]
  16. Douse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  17. douse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  18. douse: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  19. douse: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  20. douse: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  21. Douse, douse: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  22. douse: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. douse: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. douse: Terra.org's Sailing Terms [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. douse: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
  2. Douse: Latitude Mexico [home, info]

Quick definitions (douse)

verb:  wet thoroughly
verb:  put out, as of a candle or a light ("Douse the lights")
verb:  slacken ("Douse a rope")
verb:  lower quickly ("Douse a sail")
verb:  cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
verb:  dip into a liquid
verb:  immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #14349)

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Phrases that include douse:   douse the glim, also dowse douse, on deck “go topside and douse the jib”

Words similar to douse:   drench, dip, doused, douser, dousing, dowse, duck, dunk, plunge, soak, sop, souse, put out, quench, more...


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