douses
Splashes water over
Douses is the verb douse in third-person singular present tense.
To douse is to drench with liquid or to extinguish: She douses the campfire before leaving, He douses himself in cologne.
The word suggests thorough soaking or sudden quenching—you douse flames, douse lights, or douse someone with a bucket of water.
Saturate with liquid
- saturateSoak to full capacity
- wetSaturated with liquid
- splashLiquid scattering on impact
- sprayDispersed liquid droplets
deluge · shower · slosh · spatter · splatter · bucket · hose · rinse
soak
Saturate with liquid
spray · deluge · shower · slosh · spatter · splatter · bucket · hose · rinse · swamp
firefighter
Emergency blaze responder
blanket · stifle · quell · dampen · squelch · hose · flames · blaze · embers · sparks
dampen
Wet slightly or diminish
quell · snuff · kill · check · curb · diminish · deflate · subdue · temper · mute
dousesdries
Loses moisture content
desiccates · dehydrates · parches · drains · wrings out
douseslights
Sources of illumination
illuminates · switches on · turns on · brightens · lights up