Meaning & use
dout
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to put out or extinguish, especially a fire or light
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The old rhyme tells listeners to dout the candle before leaving the room.
Firefighters worked through the night to dout the last of the flames.
A note on using this word
A rare, chiefly dialectal word formed by contracting 'do out'; it survives mainly in older or regional English and mirrors 'don' ('do on') and 'doff' ('do off').
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