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dousing

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Dousing (noun) means the act of soaking something, or throwing water over it.

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The act of soaking something, or throwing water over it.

"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." — Sean C. Grass, The Self in the Cell: Narrating the Victorian Prisoner (2014)

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