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dousing

dousing ‎(plural dousings)

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.