dowse vs douse
Definitions
verb
- wet thoroughly
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal
- slacken
noun
- searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod
Examples
Dowsett is a television news reporter / anchor for KTVL, the CBS station in Medford, Oregon.
Outdoors in the sculpture court, local bands Atole, Tu Fawning and E*Rock, will play throughout the day and visitors can watch an expert "dowser" uncover the colors and sounds of works of art, see a demonstration of printmaking at a mobile print factory and sample specially made beer brewed to complement individual museum objects for the event by Old Lompoc, Laurelwood and Lucky Lab.
Traditional rural dowsers used wooden sticks to locate underground water.
Definitions
verb
- wet thoroughly
- dip into a liquid
- lower quickly
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
Examples
Their bodies were then doused with petrol and burned in a garden.
All doctors have been doused in a variety of bodily fluids.
She ran to alert neighbours who battled in vain to douse the blaze until firefighters arrived.
