dousing

English

Verb

dousing

1. present participle of douse

Noun

dousing (plural dousings)

1. The act by which something is doused.
   • 2014, Sean C. Grass, The Self in the Cell: Narrating the Victorian Prisoner

     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.

Anagrams

• Gudinos, guidons