- dowse, dowsing, rhabdomancy - searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod
--1 is a kind of divination, foretelling, soothsaying, fortune telling
Derived form: verb dowse2
- douse, dowse - wet thoroughly
--1 is one way to wet
Sample sentence:
Water and alcohol dowse the cloth
- dowse - use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal
--2 is one way to divine
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun dowse1, noun dowser1, noun dowser2, noun dowsing1
Somebody ----s
- douse, dowse - slacken; "douse a rope"
--3 is one way to slacken, remit
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse - cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"
--4 is one way to wet
Sample sentence:
They dowse the cloth with water and alcohol