douse

verb

1. 浇灭（火）；熄（灯）
   to stop a fire from burning by pouring water over it; to put out a light
2. 往…上泼水；把…浸在液体里
   to pour a lot of liquid over sb/sth; to soak sb/sth in liquid
   1. The car was doused in petrol and set alight.
      这辆汽车被浇上汽油点燃了。

1. VERB 浇灭(火)
   If you douse a fire, you stop it burning by pouring a lot of water over it.
   1. The pumps were started and the crew began to douse the fire with water.
      水泵开动了，消防队员们开始用水灭火。
2. VERB (把液体)浇（或洒、泼）在…上
   If you douse someone or something with a liquid, you throw a lot of that liquid over them.
   1. They hurled abuse at their victim as they doused him with petrol.
      他们一边大声辱骂这名受害者一边将汽油淋在他身上。
3. VERB 熄灭(灯)
   If you douse a light, you turn it off.
   1. I doused the headlights and got out.
      我灭了车前灯后下了车。

1. The pumps were started and the crew began to douse the fire with water.
   水泵开动了，消防队员们开始用水灭火。
2. They hurled abuse at their victim as they doused him with petrol.
   他们一边大声辱骂这名受害者一边将汽油淋在他身上。
3. I doused the headlights and got out.
   我灭了车前灯后下了车。
4. You don` t have to douse yourself in expensive perfume, or have three baths a day, but personal hygiene should be key before a big date.
   其实，你大可不必喷上昂贵的香水，也不必一日三遍澡沐浴更衣，但重要约会前的个人卫生却是重点。
5. The challenge is simple: Either donate$ 100 to a given cause, or douse yourself with ice, film it, and pass the challenge on to others via social media.
   挑战规则很简单：要不捐出100美元，要不就往自己身上倒一桶冰，拍下来并通过社交媒体点名其他人接受挑战。
6. Kind-spirited humor can douse a hot argument, head off a fight, and turn the drudgery of household responsibilities and planning into something witty, smart, and hilarious.
   善意的玩笑可以缓和争吵，平息争斗，还能把家务缠身的苦差变成一种诙谐、智慧和欢笑。
7. Those factors were used to shut them out of competitions, but in spite of the obstacles they faced they proved that nothing can douse their competitive spirit and love of their games.
   但是尽管他们面临重重困难，那些原本可能拒他们于竞争之外的因素，恰恰证明了没有什么能够幻灭他们的竞争精神以及他们对体育比赛的热爱。
8. Certainly the forces who caused the catastrophe, and who daily douse us with fallout from chemtrails, have no intention or interest in assisting to reduce the radiation.
   当然引起这个灾难的力量，每天往我们身上泼尘埃，并不打算或者有兴趣帮助减少辐射。
9. It was like trying to douse a 4-alarm Fire with a water pistol.
   这就像企图用一把水枪去扑灭一场四级火情警报的大火一样。
10. I'm not here to massage your ego, I'm giving you your daily douse of logic.
    我不是在折磨你的意思，我只是给你一个合适的逻辑观。
11. Assignment: Using the water you brought, you will be able to temporarily douse the flame that holds the centaur relic.
    任务：使用你带来的水，你将能够暂时的进入被圣火保护的半人马遗迹。
12. It did not take long for the UK's tabloid press, that whited sepulchre of hypocritical moralism, to douse the light once more.
    可没过多久，英国小报这些粉饰伪善道德主义的残余，就再次将这种灵光泯灭。
13. The Japanese military used trucks and helicopters to dump tonnes of water onto the Fukushima nuclear plant yesterday in a bid to douse fuel rods and prevent a disastrous radiation release;
    日军用卡车和直升机转储到福岛核电站吨水，企图扑灭核燃料棒，防止灾难性的辐射释放昨天；
14. Estimates of the shortfall have fluctuated since the broker-dealer filed for bankruptcy on October 31 after failing to douse fears over its exposure to European sovereign debt.
    因无法平息市场对其在欧洲主权债券敞口上的担忧，这家经纪自营商于10月30日提出破产申请，此后资金缺口估值不断变化。
15. Americans like pleasant scents, and douse them-selves and their personal products liberally with per-fume.
    美国人喜欢香气，在身上和个人物品上洒满了香水。
16. You wanna just douse me in steak sauce before I go to my room?
    谢谢，妈，在我回卧室之前，能帮我把牛排调料送进去吗？
17. Tokyo residents started the day viewing images of Japanese military helicopters trying to douse overheating reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant with large buckets of seawater.
    日本首都东京的居民今天一早看到的画面是，日本军用直升机试图把大桶海水洒到福岛核电站过热的反应堆上，以求为其降温。
18. In order to make themselves and their homes less inviting to these wayward spirits, the ancient Celts would douse all their fires.
    为了让他们自己和他们的家不要收到这些任性的鬼魂的骚扰，古老的凯尔特人弄熄他们所有的火。
19. Firefighters were able to douse the fire, limiting damage to the steeple only.
    消防队员得以扑灭火灾，限制损害尖塔只。
20. Greek fire-fighting teams, assisted by more than 30 water-bombing aircraft provided by other European Union member states and Israel, struggled to douse fires that had been reignited by high winds.
    在欧盟成员国和以色列支援的30多架投水飞机的帮助下，希腊消防队奋力对因大风重燃的火场进行了扑救。
21. Last one out has to douse the fire.
    最后一个离开的得把火扑灭。
22. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth.
    记忆像火，发出光辉且永恒。然而历史只服从于那些试图控制它的人，那些人扑灭记忆之火为了消除真相所带来的危机。
23. One option would be a large, one-off revaluation of the renminbi, which potentially could douse speculation over further rises and hence depress speculative inflows.
    另一种选择是对人民币实行一次性大幅度升值，这或许能够减轻人民币进一步升值的猜测，从而遏制投机资本的流入。
24. This follows a move late last year to raise stamp duty on sales of flats held for less than one year to try to douse speculative demand for property.
    香港曾在去年末出台措施，对持有不到一年的公寓单位的出售提高印花税，以求遏制投机性的房产需求。
25. This essentially means that you could douse a Roundup Ready soybean in this toxic chemical, and it will live on, coated in horrible toxicities.
    这就是说，你可以把农达这种有毒的化学除草剂泼在这种转基因大豆上，它却会继续生存下去，但身上却粘满可怕的毒素。
26. Pragmatism in foreign policy began to douse ideology as China encouraged the going-global strategy in search of energy security, materials and new markets.
    实用主义开始在外交政策上占据主导地位，中国鼓励走出去寻求能源安全、材料和新的市场的全球战略。

  extinguish douse quench【导航词义：熄灭】

  extinguish v. 〈正式〉熄灭，扑灭

〔辨析〕指熄灭火、香烟、灯光等。

  douse v. 浇灭，熄灭

〔辨析〕指用水等把火泼灭。

  quench v. 〈正式〉熄灭

〔辨析〕指用水或其他方法灭火，含抑制之意。

verb

1. cover with liquid
   1. souse water on his hot face

   Synonym:    drenchdowsesoaksopsouse

2. slacken
   1. douse a rope

   Synonym:    dowse

3. lower quickly
   1. douse a sail

4. immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
   1. dip the garment into the cleaning solution
   2. dip the brush into the paint

   Synonym:    dunkdipsouseplunge

5. dip into a liquid
   1. He dipped into the pool

   Synonym:    dipduck

6. wet thoroughly

   Synonym:    dowse

7. put out, as of a candle or a light
   1. Douse the lights

   Synonym:    put out