(v. t.) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.
(v. t.) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail.
(v. i.) To fall suddenly into water.
(v. t.) To put out; to extinguish.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has brought waves of Australian diplomats and functionaries implementing strategies to douse local disgruntlement at the profound social, cultural, environmental and economic impacts their operation has brought.
(2) In London there are generally four types of rock show: the billions of pub gigs where 20 of the band's mates try to convince you there's still a future in grindie; the arena and stadium blowouts where it's customary to express one's appreciation of the band by dousing one's peers in airborne urine; the east London artronica happenings where everyone's only watching everyone else; and the gigs in Hyde Park you can't hear.
(3) Hayes-White said first responders told her they saw people at the edge of the bay dousing themselves with water, possibly to cool burn injuries.
(4) One by one, the rain having slowed, the men turn the bucket's plastic tap and douse their hands in the life-saving water.
(5) El Niño, the weather system which often douses the western US, has returned after a five-year absence but promises little relief.
(6) Cameron has spent much of a three-day visit to the US battling to douse the Eurosceptic fires caused by the rise of Ukip.
(7) There are gates cleverly constructed from plastic crates and mail boxes fashioned from a oil cans, all liberally doused in bright blues and pinks, greens and yellows, tying each assemblage into a carefully crafted home.
(8) We buy – and companies supply – food doused in high-fructose corn syrup, delivering a sugar high that is hard to resist, but devoid of nutrition.
(9) Security forces shot him before they doused the flames.
(10) According to his lawyers , he was forced to stay awake for nine days, denied food, doused in freezing water and made to stand on concrete in the winter for 16 hours.
(11) Surely any warm glow we might feel about HMV nostalgia deserves dousing with the news that gift vouchers some bought at the shop over Christmas are now invalid .
(12) Fire engines stood by to douse flames, including in one shop that was set on fire, but the protests appear to have ended without deaths or significant injuries, unlike previous violent protests against the burning of copies of the Qur'an by a US pastor and US troops, when several people died.
(13) Smoke billows into the air as a firefighter douses the fire at the Glasgow School of Art's Charles Rennie Mackintosh building.
(14) The video appeared to show vulnerable residents being pinned down, slapped, doused in water and taunted.
(15) Rahman had been left in a cold cell, stripped from the waist down and had been doused in water, according to reports from the Associated Press .
(16) The drama bounces from Texas to Mississippi on the cusp of the civil war, effects a shotgun wedding of 60s spaghetti western with 70s "slavesploitation" and douses the magnolia in arterial blood.
(17) A kung pao chicken appetizer was made with chicken McNuggets doused in sweet and sour sauce and garnished with parsley.
(18) When Scotland got their goal back it could have been a bit edgy, but we responded fantastically and it was very special for me to score two goals for England in Scotland at Celtic Park.” Gordon Strachan admitted his players had been “spooked” by England’s energetic opening as they slipped to only a second defeat in 11 games to douse some of the optimism generated by Friday’s victory over the Republic of Ireland .
(19) Mirallas and Naismith were involved again as Everton doused any hope Arsenal had of salvaging pride in the second half.
(20) As Indonesia deployed planes and a fourth helicopter to help douse the fires in Riau province, Sumatra, much of southern Malaysia was shrouded in thick smog.
Souse
Definition:
(n.) A corrupt form of Sou.
(n.) Pickle made with salt.
(n.) Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
(n.) The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
(n.) The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
(v. t.) To steep in pickle; to pickle.
(v. t.) To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.
(v. t.) To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly.
(v. t.) To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack.
(v. t.) To pounce upon.
(n.) The act of sousing, or swooping.
(adv.) With a sudden swoop; violently.
Example Sentences:
(1) The catalyst was a series of confrontations between immigrant youth and the police in the Parisian banlieue of Clichy-sous-Bois .
(2) The two teenagers were electrocuted while hiding in a power substation in Clichy-sous-Bois, north of Paris, in October 2005.
(3) Vulnerable people such as the elderly and hospital patients are increasingly likely to consume food produced by new systems such as 'cook-chill' and 'cuisson sous vide'.
(4) Along the main water courses in the sparsely populated areas of the Sous-Préfecture of Tcholliré, the vectors of onchocerciasis were mainly Simulium damnosum s. str.
(5) Ever since the riots in Clichy-sous-Bois in 2005, all matches with North African teams had become potential triggers for trouble in Paris.
(6) In Aulnay-sous-Bois, which has seen some of the worst of the rioting, residents walked past burnt-out vehicles and buildings with banners reading 'No to violence' and 'Yes to dialogue'.
(7) Their deaths by electrocution triggered riots on the boys' run-down estates in Clichy-sous-Bois, north of Paris, which soon spread across France.
(8) Nutritionists and food scientists have concerns about the food safety of sous vide products and the possible increase in food borne illnesses.
(9) The "Iles sous le Vent" are well staffed and well equipped, but other islands are under privileged.
(10) Of the sausage samples examined, 38% of the fresh pork sausage, 9% of the smoked pork sausage, and 1 sample (souse) of 16 samples of miscellaneous sausage products were contaminated.
(11) Yesterday the right-wing mayor of Aulnay-sous-Bois, Gérard Gaudron, led a silent march of 600 residents between the destroyed fire station and the burnt-out pensioners' day centre in Mille-Mille.
(12) The challenge however is not to reshape Paris, but rather to extend its inherent beauty to its outskirts, les banlieues – a web of small villages, some terribly grand and chic (Neuilly, Versailles, Saint Mandé, Vincennes, Saint Germain-en-Laye), others modest and provincial-looking (Montreuil, Pantin, Malakoff, Montrouge, Saint Gervais) and others still, socially ravaged and architecturally dehumanised (La Courneuve, Clichy-sous-bois).
(13) It comes after an investigation by Channel 4 News estimated last month that more than 11,000 positions currently advertised on the government's Universal Jobmatch website may not actually exist, ranging from vacancies for sous chefs to dry-cleaners.
(14) "Most of the kids in this neighbourhood are the fourth generation of their family in France," said Mohamed Mechmeche, 44, a youth worker in Clichy-sous-Bois who after the riots founded the community pressure group Aclefeu.
(15) Even if they did, the warnings did not deter Bouna Traore, 15, and Ziad Benna, 17, from going into the electricity substation in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois.
(16) Activists and youth workers in Clichy-sous-Bois had said that if the case did not go to trial it would be a message that poor families on run-down estates did not deserve justice in France.
(17) While unemployment, poor housing, daily discrimination and racism have run local people into the ground in the poorest parts of Clichy-sous-Bois, it is the daily conflict with police that remains a tinderbox.
(18) It was here in Clichy-sous-Bois in 2005 that the deaths of two boys who had been running from police were the catalyst for the worst riots in modern French history.
(19) That same night, 15 cars were torched in Clichy-sous-Bois, a classic French banlieue of rundown postwar high-rises that are home to 30,000 people, overwhelmingly second and third-generation immigrants whose parents arrived in France as cheap migrant labour from north Africa.
(20) Photograph: Annabel Moeller Heston Shops selling blowtorches, sous-vides and gold leaf should be ready for a last-minute rush as Britain’s peculiar-fusion chef Heston Blumenthal makes his debut as a Radio 2 DJ and gives festive cooking tips.