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Meanings of douse (doused) in inglés
Synonyms
Examples for "extinguish"
Examples for "extinguish"
1
The best way would be to extinguish the desire for nuclear weapons.
2
Tracking the virus hunters who race to understand and extinguish new pathogens.
3
These kinds of fires are often impossible to extinguish using conventional tactics.
4
Thankfully, law enforcement arrived on the scene rapidly to extinguish the fire.
5
This enlightenment importuned him; he tried to extinguish it and could not.
1
The result will be put out to public comment for 15 days.
2
Any new proposals will of course be put out to public consultation.
3
However, feelers were put out, which soon led to my welcome release.
4
They're far better than what was put out there. TV: 1 p.m.
5
I really think that you have to put out a good product.
Usage of doused in inglés
1
Her words doused my anger faster than a bucket of ice water.
2
The sight of it doused me with a cold splash of reality.
3
Petrol was doused over the Skipperstone Community Centre before being set alight.
4
This was Lotte, she who doused herself every day with violet water.
5
The fighter fighters then took action and the blaze was soon doused.
6
Students said that female teachers were doused in petrol and burned alive.
7
He washed, changed and doused himself with cologne, then set out again.
8
He shredded print-outs, doused them in lighter fluid and set them alight.
9
He had doused himself in ambergris in honor of the occasion tonight.
10
Crystallizing salt takes hold of my eyelashes-untilI'm completely doused once again.
11
But you will have to worry about it getting doused with liquid.
12
A curl of seawater sloshed over the concrete and doused my shoes.
13
Could they be on a timer, or had they been doused deliberately?
14
Michael lifted a brow, then doused the remaining pancakes with Aunt Jemima.
15
Raspberry meringue layer cake Fluffy clouds of meringue astride raspberry jam-doused sponge.
16
She was generously doused in some designer perfume clipped from a magazine.
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Doused through the time
Doused across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common