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• flame: They then used Bobby's window cleaner buckets which still had water in them to douse the flames.

• fire: With 1.5 million people without water, the US prioritized laying a water pipe to douse oilwell fires.

• ember: Once over, soil or water should be used to douse the embers to prevent it flaring up again.

Modifying Another Word

• not: They do not douse when I drizzle them from my green watering can.

• just: Maybe they just douse it in gasoline: it certainly burns quicker than you'd expect.

• liberally: No, choice is a large, lifeless herring that has been liberally doused in scarlet.

• then: He then doused a valiant Stoke fight-back with a third to seal a 3-1 win for Derby.

• quickly: Our fire fighting equipment quickly doused the fire, and the family were taken back to Cowes.

Preposition: in

• gasoline: He had seen corpses fail to burn well when doused in gasoline, and that was end of story.

• water: When the macaques and gibbons were doused in water, they frantically licked the water from their fur.

• bucket: Aerial shells should be doused in a bucket of water, then buried deep in the ground.

• perfume: This didn't mean she got involved with the mucky stuff, tho - all the sheep and goats were doused regularly in perfume.

• vinegar: Cooked fresh cockles have a flavor quite unlike those which have been doused in vinegar - a real taste of the sea.