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Draggle

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

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Douse 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Dowse 76% connected

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

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Drench 76% 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.

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Soak 76% 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…

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Sop 76% connected

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

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Souse 76% connected

A corrupt form of Sou.

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Bedraggle 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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