Noun
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searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod
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dowsing,
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fortune telling,
soothsaying,
foretelling,
divination the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means
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Verb
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use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal
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divine search by divining, as if with a rod; "He claimed he could divine underground water"
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cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"
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drench,
douse,
soak,
sop,
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wet make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating; "This eight year old boy still wets his bed"
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brine soak in brine
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bedraggle,
draggle make wet and dirty, as from rain
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bate soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins"
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ret place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue
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sluice,
flush irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"
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slacken; "douse a rope"
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douse |
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slacken,
remit make slack as by lessening tension or firmness
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| dowse -
wet thoroughly
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douse |
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wet make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating; "This eight year old boy still wets his bed"
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