| 单词 | dowse |
| 释义 | dowse (once / 25271 pages) 1vn 2v 3v WORD FAMILY dowse: dowsed, dowser, dowses, dowsing+/dowser: dowsers USAGE EXAMPLESMs. Phillips came into the house carrying “dowsing rods,” crooked rods that are traditionally used as divination tools for finding buried treasure or water. Wall Street Journal(Oct 27, 2016) Authorities say 44-year-old Shawn Dowse, of Kearney, died at the scene Tuesday morning, about two miles west of Hazard on Nebraska Highway 2. Washington Times(Sep 14, 2016) Online court records say 44-year-old Shawn Dowse was arrested Wednesday. Washington Times(Sep 13, 2016) 1 1v use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal Hyper divine search by divining, as if with a rod 2n searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod 2Syn|Hyper dowsing, rhabdomancy divination, foretelling, fortune telling, soothsaying the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means 1v cover with liquid; pour liquid onto Syn|Hypo|Hyper douse, drench, soak, sop, souse brine soak in brine bedraggle, dragglemake wet and dirty, as from rain batesoak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments retplace (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue flush, sluiceirrigate with water from a sluice wet cause to become wet 2v wet thoroughly 3Syn|Hyper douse wet cause to become wet v slacken Syn|Hyper douse remit, slacken make slack as by lessening tension or firmness |
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