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Dowse

To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.

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Manner of action 7

Bate 76% connected

Strife; contention.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bedraggle 76% connected

To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc.

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Brine 76% connected

Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor result…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Draggle 76% connected

To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail.

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Flush 76% connected

To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

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Ret 76% connected

See Aret.

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Sluice 76% connected

An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood ga…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 7

Divination 76% connected

The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.

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Divine 76% connected

Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.

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Foretelling 76% connected

of Foretell

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Remit 76% connected

To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.

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Slacken 76% connected

To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.

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Soothsaying 76% connected

A true saying; truth.

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Wet 76% connected

Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet…

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Derivationally related 2

Dowser 74% connected

A divining rod used in searching for water, ore, etc., a dowsing rod.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dowser 74% connected

A divining rod used in searching for water, ore, etc., a dowsing rod.

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Synonym 6

Douse 92% connected

To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Drench 92% connected

To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rhabdomancy 92% connected

Same as Rabdomancy.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Soak 92% connected

To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the p…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sop 92% connected

Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Souse 92% connected

A corrupt form of Sou.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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