Word Meanings - DOUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail. (more info) 1. To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DOUSE)

• Immerse
• Dip
• plunge
• sink
• soak
• steep
• macerate
• duck
• submerge
• drown
• inundate
• douse
• overwhelm
• Plunge
• dive
• immerse
• precipitate
• thrust under
• pitch headlong

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DOUSE)

• Air
• dry
• ventilate
• fan
• sun
• aridity
• exsiccate

Related words: (words related to DOUSE)

• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• UNDERDOER
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• PRECIPITATELY
  In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• UNDERPLOT
  1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
• UNDERNICENESS
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• UNDERDOLVEN
  p. p. of Underdelve.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• UNDERPROP
  To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
• UNDERNIME
  1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
• ARIDITY
  1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• UNDERSAY
  To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
• UNDERTAPSTER
  Assistant to a tapster.
• VENTILATE
  brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a
• UNDERDELVE
  To delve under.
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• DUNDERHEAD
  A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.
• TEN-POUNDER
  A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.