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dousing en · NOUN
Meanings
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The act by which something is doused.
But the Royal Commission learned that he also employed water-dousings and a vicious device called the "punishment jacket" to inflict varying degrees of physical and psychological torments upon the inmates under his care.
2014, Sean C. Grass, The Self in the Cell: Narrating the Victorian Prisoner:
Forms
dousing en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of douse