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dousings

dousings is the plural of dousing.

Meaning of dousing

Noun

dousing (plural dousings)

  1. 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

Questions about dousings

What is dousings the plural of?
Dousings is the plural of dousing.

Words near dousings in the dictionary

  1. dousers
  2. douses
  3. dousing
  4. dousing-chock
  5. dousing-chocks
  6. dousings
  7. Dousland
  8. doust
  9. dousted
  10. dousting
  11. doustings

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