how to pronounce douse

/daʊs/

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douse is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of douse in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… whose job was to douse the runaway …”

meaning of douse

Douse means to extinguish or put out a fire.

douse frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word douse occurs in english on average 0.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics douse can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that douse can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;