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Dowse   /daʊs/   Listen
Dowse

verb
1.
Wet thoroughly.  Synonym: douse.
2.
Use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal.
3.
Slacken.  Synonym: douse.
4.
Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto.  Synonyms: douse, drench, soak, sop, souse.



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"Dowse" Quotes from Famous Books



... Monday, do declare and certify, that all the accompanying letters and documents are genuine and authentic. Jane Dowse, to whom and from whom, are so many letters, was my late mother, she having intermarried with Peter Dowse, the man so often named, and who led her into acts for which I know she has since been deeply repentant. In committing these papers to me, my poor mother left me the sole ...
— Home as Found • James Fenimore Cooper


Words linked to "Dowse" :   remit, soothsaying, bate, soak, divine, brine, draggle, slacken, sluice, fortune telling, divination, foretelling, ret, bedraggle, wet, flush


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