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Dousing

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Dousing meaning

present participle and gerund of douse

Synonyms of Dousing

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According to early reports, a young Ukrainian male sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl before stabbing her, dousing her in a liquid—likely gasoline—and throwing her off a cliff after wrapping her up in a bag.

According to the government’s case, Schwartz began chasing down any retreating officers he could find and dousing them with pepper spray as he surged through the crowd into the lower west terrace tunnel wielding a wooden club.

Aoba is accused of intentionally dousing the studio with gasoline that fueled the inferno.

ESPN’s longtime resident LeBron whisperer Brian Windhorst is already dousing the airwaves with scuttlebutt regarding the Lakers’ renewed interest in acquiring Irving in a sign-and-trade this summer.

Firefighters were pictured stood on the roof of the school building dousing the flames.

High temperatures and strong winds hampered efforts by more than 1,000 firefighters and water-dousing planes to extinguish the flames, which destroyed some 8,400 hectares, according to preliminary data.

Almost two weeks on from the assault, detectives now believe Ezedi entered the river just hours after dousing his former partner and her two little girls in a corrosive alkaline.

For all the build-up, the national anthem, Abide with Me, the pomp and ceremony, the nerves, tension and excitement, by 5:08pm, the sold-out City half of that national stadium were pinching themselves, dousing their faces in cold water.

Handout photo shows Bomba personnel dousing the fire.

He may even be described as an “influencer” for those who are in a “shall I, shan’t I?” quandary over nailing their ear to a tree or dousing themselves in manure.

Moreover, dousing the foliage can lead to fungal diseases since these pathogens thrive in moist and humid conditions.

One of the most popular Super Bowl non-game prop bets involves the color of the Gatorade used in the victory dousing.

Or if you’re Charli XCX, dousing last year’s It piece — the white vest — in a bucket of red wine.

Rate hikes on their own can become inflationary, as they are now; persisting with them to control inflation is akin to dousing fire with gasoline.

The CCTV camera of a nearby house had captured Lohani dousing himself with petrol before setting himself ablaze in the Juni area, police said.

The small companies in the Russell 2000 index dropped 3.7 per cent, further dousing what had been a revival for it and other beaten-down areas of the market.

This year in particular, social media has been noisy with complaints of the water dousing damaging people’s electronic gadgets, including laptops, and of delivery riders’ packages—food and other stuff—getting soaked, with the drivers being held liable.

Those with acne-prone skin may cringe at the thought of dousing their face in oil, but this organic cleanser features astringent ingredients high in tannins to calm overactive sebaceous glands, aka keep breakouts at bay.

A dozen fire engines and RDMC personnel are engaged in dousing the flames, Santosh Kadam, chief of the Thane Municipal Corporation's Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) told news agency PTI.

As the giant of Africa, I have not seen or heard diplomatic moves geared towards dousing the tension.