dowse

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

I - noun

searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod
• Syn:
dowsing, rhabdomancy
• Derivationally related forms:
rhabdomancer (for: rhabdomancy), dowse (for: dowsing)
• Hypernyms:
divination, foretelling, soothsaying, fortune telling

II - verb

1. wet thoroughly
• Syn:
douse
• Hypernyms:
wet
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
- Water and alcohol dowse the cloth
2. use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal
• Derivationally related forms:
dowser, dowsing
• Hypernyms:
divine
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
3. slacken
- douse a rope
• Syn:
douse
• Hypernyms:
slacken, remit
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
4. cover with liquid;
pour liquid onto
- souse water on his hot face
• Syn:
drench, douse, soak, sop, souse
• Derivationally related forms:
souse (for: souse), sousing (for: souse), soaker (for: soak), soaking (for: soak)
• Hypernyms:
wet
• Hyponyms:
brine, bedraggle, draggle, bate, ret,
sluice, flush
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
- They dowse the cloth with water and alcohol

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  dowsing, rhabdomancy, drench, douse, soak, sop, souse