dowse

Meaning of dowse

verb
  1. practise dowsing.
    water is easy to dowse for

late 17th century: of unknown origin.

verb

variant spelling of douse.

verb
  1. pour a liquid over; drench.
    he doused the car with petrol and set it on fire
  2. extinguish (a fire or light).
    stewards appeared and the fire was doused
    nothing could douse her sudden euphoria
  3. lower (a sail) quickly.

mid 16th century: perhaps imitative; compare souse.

Information about dowse

  • It is a verb.
  • The plural form of dowse is: dowses.
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Hyphenation of dowse

dowse

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • dowse is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

dowse synonyms

Meaning dowsing:

dowsing, rhabdomancy

Meaning douse:

douse

Meaning drench:

drench, douse, soak, sop, souse

Meaning cause (something) to become thoroughly soaked with water or other liquid so that no more can be absorbed:

saturate

Meaning die through submersion in and inhalation of water:

drown

Meaning cover or submerge (an area) with water in a flood:

flood

Meaning overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with:

inundate

Meaning overwhelm with a flood:

deluge

Meaning cover or touch with liquid; moisten:

wet

Meaning cause (liquid) to strike or fall on something in irregular drops:

splash

Meaning (of liquid in a container) move irregularly with a splashing sound:

slosh

Meaning cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine:

extinguish

Meaning extinguish (a fire):

quench

Meaning extinguish (a fire) by covering it:

smother

Meaning extinguish (a fire or light):

dout

Anagrams of dowse

sowed

Words that rhyme with dowse

owse, bowse, chowse, blowse, lowse, mowse, adrowse, bedrowse, browse, drowse, growse, overbrowse, sowse, stowse, towse

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