Dousing (Noun)
Meaning
The act of wetting something by submerging it.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The campers learned a technique of dousing their towels in the lake to cool off on a hot summer day.
- The firefighters used a dousing of the entire room to ensure that the flames were completely extinguished.
- After a few hours of gardening, Emily loved the sensation of dousing her parched feet in a cool bucket of water.
- The process of dousing the fabric in the dye created a unique, swirly pattern that was impossible to replicate.
- A dousing in icy water was just what the doctor ordered to shock Alex's sprained ankle back to life.