dousing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of douse

plural dousings

1. The act by which something is doused.

   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.

   2014, Sean C. Grass, The Self in the Cell: Narrating the Victorian Prisoner