Synonyms of the word

dowse

• n. A blow on the face.
• v. To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.
• v. To beat or thrash.
• v. To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc.

divination

• n. (uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
• n. The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
• n. (countable) An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.

divine

• adj. Of or pertaining to a god.
• adj. Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
• adj. Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
• adj. Beautiful, heavenly.
• adj. (obsolete) Foreboding; prescient.
• adj. Relating to divinity or theology.
• n. One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
• n. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
• n. (often capitalized, with 'the') God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.
• v. (transitive) To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
• v. (transitive) To guess (something).
• v. (transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
• v. To render divine; to deify.

douse

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.
• v. (intransitive) To fall suddenly into water.
• v. (transitive) To put out; to extinguish.
• v. (transitive) To strike.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly.
• n. A blow; stroke.

dowsing

• n. The practice of seeking water or other substances (usually liquid) with the aid of a forked stick or similar…
• v. present participle of dowse.

drench

• n. A draught administered to an animal.
• n. (obsolete) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also,…
• v. To soak, to make very wet.
• v. To cause to drink; especially, to dose (e.g. a horse) with medicine by force.
• n. (obsolete, Britain) A military vassal, mentioned in the Domesday Book.

foretelling

• v. present participle of foretell.
• n. prediction.

remit

• v. To forgive, pardon.
• v. To refrain from exacting or enforcing.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To give up; omit; cease doing.
• v. To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To show a lessening or abatement (of) a specified quality.
• v. (obsolete) To diminish, abate.
• v. To refer (something) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
• v. (obsolete) To send back.
• v. (archaic) To give or deliver up; surrender; resign.
• v. To restore or replace.
• v. To postpone.
• v. To transmit or send, as money in payment.
• n. (chiefly Britain) terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.

rhabdomancy

• n. Divination with a wand or rod; dowsing.

slacken

• v. (intransitive) To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack.
• v. (transitive) To make slack, less taut, or less intense.
• v. To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake.

soak

• v. (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
• v. (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
• v. (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
• v. (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up).
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To take money from.
• v. (slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
• v. (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
• v. (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
• n. An immersion in water etc.
• n. (slang, Britain) A drunkard.
• n. (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.

soothsaying

• n. A method of foretelling the future.

sop

• n. Something entirely soaked.
• n. A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
• n. Something given or done to pacify or bribe.
• n. A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop.
• n. Gravy. (Appalachia).
• n. (obsolete) A thing of little or no value.
• v. To steep or dip in any liquid.

souse

• n. Something kept or steeped in brine.
• n. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
• n. A person suffering from alcoholism.
• v. To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
• n. The act of sousing, or swooping.
• n. A heavy blow.
• v. (now dialectal, transitive) to strike, beat.
• v. (now dialectal, intransitive) to fall heavily.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) to pounce upon.
• n. (obsolete) sou (the French coin).
• n. (dated) A small amount.

wet

• adj. Of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.
• adj. Of weather or a time period, rainy.
• adj. Made up of liquid or moisture.
• adj. (Britain, informal) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
• adj. (slang, of a woman) sexually aroused.
• adj. (slang, of a person) Inexperienced in a task or profession; having the characteristics of a rookie.
• adj. (of a scientist or laboratory) Working with chemical or biological matter.
• adj. (chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
• adj. Permitting alcoholic beverages, as during Prohibition.
• adj. (fountain pens and calligraphy) Depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
• adj. (slang, archaic) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
• adj. (of a burrito, sandwich, etc.) Covered in a sauce.
• n. Liquid or moisture.
• n. Rainy weather.
• n. (Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized).
• n. (Britain, pejorative) A moderate Conservative.
• n. (colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
• n. (US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
• v. (transitive) To cover or impregnate with liquid.
• v. (transitive) To accidentally urinate in or on.
• v. (intransitive) To make or become wet.
• v. (transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
• v. Misspelling of whet.