douched

past tense of douche

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for douched
Verb
  • Their crew had parked their fire truck there and, for an entire night, had hosed down the four houses.
    Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Waking up an hour earlier than expected and being hosed with mountain runoff water while crawling in the pool tested my resilience and determination.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Specialty cocktails flowed throughout the night, while Unfortunate Portrait created live custom sketches, bringing a playful touch.
    Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2025
  • In the past two years, historic droughts have left wide dry patches where deep channels once flowed.
    Isa Cardona, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • During a recent appearance on the Good Guys podcast, the actor, 62, gushed over his fellow Full House alum Lori Loughlin and their longtime friendship.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • In a separate interview with the magazine last year, Donna Kelce gushed over the release of Swift's album, The Tortured Poets Department.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Nearly every market is saturated.
    Astha Bhardwaj, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The colors are richly saturated, and when something catches Ryan’s eye—say, a bee alighting on a wildflower—the images shimmer with an almost radioactive intensity.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The August rains that soaked much of the Milwaukee area changed that.
    La Risa R. Lynch, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • By the end of each trip, our clothes were soaked and our skin bitten raw by mosquitoes.
    Vogue, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The casual space and its furnishings are modern and understated, with a floor plan drenched in natural light thanks to windows on all sides.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Their nights are pitch black, but their days are drenched in light.
    Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In the recent past, Japanese companies like Toyota and Sony had flooded America’s market with high quality but inexpensive cars and electronics, harming the business of great American brands, including General Motors and RCA.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In 1700, for example, the Dutch flooded part of West Africa with perhaps as much as 40 million pounds of gunpowder, enough for well over half a billion musket shots; the world population at the time may have been as low as 600 million people.
    Clifton Crais, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Following the incident, bystanders rushed to assist the men, who were then taken to Enmore Regional Hospital.
    Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion.
    MIAMI HERALD HURRICANE BOT, Miami Herald, 25 Oct. 2025
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“Douched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/douched. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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