Dousing

"Dousing" in a Sentence (2 examples)

He forgot his umbrella home and got caught in a dousing downpour.

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.

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