What is another word for dousing?
Pronunciation:
[ dˈa͡ʊsɪŋ], [ dˈaʊsɪŋ], [ d_ˈaʊ_s_ɪ_ŋ]
Related words: water dousing, fire dousing, flame dousing, smoke dousing
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Synonyms for Dousing:
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n.
• act • bath -
v.
• flooding • immersing Other relevant words:
- Bating ,
- Bedraggling ,
- Bothering ,
- Circumventing ,
- Dabbling ,
- Damping ,
- Dimming ,
- Discommoding ,
- Engulfment ,
- Evading ,
- Extending ,
- Extinguishment ,
- Fleecing ,
- Fudging ,
- Furling ,
- Incommoding ,
- Inebriating ,
- Parrying ,
- Pawning ,
- Plucking ,
- Pluming ,
- Remitting ,
- Robbing ,
- Slanging ,
- Snuffing ,
- Steeping ,
- Surcharging ,
- Wiping ,
- absorbing ,
- absorption ,
- anaesthetizing ,
- anesthetizing ,
- annihilation ,
- assiduity ,
- assiduousness ,
- baptism ,
- bath ,
- brining ,
- burial ,
- choking ,
- compactness ,
- concentration ,
- controlling ,
- dampening ,
- denseness ,
- density ,
- dip ,
- disobliging ,
- dodging ,
- douse ,
- dowsing ,
- duck ,
- duck hunting ,
- ducking ,
- dumping ,
- dunk ,
- dying ,
- eluding ,
- engrossing ,
- engrossment ,
- entrance ,
- entry ,
- extinction ,
- extinguishing ,
- fire fighting ,
- flame-out ,
- gazumping ,
- going out ,
- harden ,
- hedging ,
- hocking ,
- hooking ,
- immergence ,
- immersion ,
- inconveniencing ,
- ingress ,
- intoxicating ,
- inundation ,
- issuing ,
- moistening ,
- overcharging ,
- plunge ,
- plunking ,
- pour over ,
- pouring ,
- publishing ,
- quench ,
- quenching ,
- releasing ,
- retiring ,
- sidestepping ,
- skirting ,
- smothering ,
- soak ,
- souse ,
- sousing ,
- splashing ,
- sprinkling ,
- steep ,
- stifling ,
- submergence ,
- submersion ,
- troubling ,
- washing ,
- watering ,
- wetting .
How to use "Dousing" in context?
When firefighters put out a fire, they douse it with water in order to put it out. This helps prevent the fire from spreading and allows firefighters to work more quickly. Water dousing is one of the most common firefighter techniques.
Hyponym for Dousing:
n.
-
act
wetting.
-
act
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