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- verb   Simple past tense and past participle of douse .
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Examples
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								The sun eventually broke through, but rain doused the course by late afternoon and left patches of water on the roads. Contador pads Tour de France advantage; Lance up to third 2009 
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								The lights had been "doused" as Nat, the acting stage manager, expressed it, and only a dim glow illuminated the tableau. Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays Margaret Penrose 
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								The single word doused the gathering of coals that Carissa’s imagination had been fanning into a fire. Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010 
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								The single word doused the gathering of coals that Carissa’s imagination had been fanning into a fire. Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010 
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								The single word doused the gathering of coals that Carissa’s imagination had been fanning into a fire. Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010 
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								The single word doused the gathering of coals that Carissa’s imagination had been fanning into a fire. Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010 
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								Killykinick reach -- clams and fish and pork and potatoes, onions and peppers and hard-tack, -- all simmering together, piping hot, in a most appetizing way, even though it had to be "doused" out with a tin ladle into yellow bowls. Killykinick 1888 
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								Weather conditions had been damp, and it seems that local firemen attending the rally "doused" the bonfire - constructed largely of wooden shipping pallets - with "diesel and another accelerant". The Register 2009 
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								Weather conditions had been damp, and it seems that local firemen attending the rally "doused" the bonfire - constructed largely of wooden shipping pallets - with "diesel and another accelerant". The Register 2009 
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								He was doused with cologne and festooned with enormous jeweled rings, and drove a massive white Cadillac. A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010 
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