dousing

dousing

1. present participle and gerund of douse

dousing (plural dousings)

1. The act by which something is doused.
   • 2014, Sean C. Grass, The Self in the Cell: Narrating the Victorian Prisoner:

     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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