douse vs bedraggle

douse and bedraggle both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
douse	No	No	Yes	No
bedraggle	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, bedraggle is a hyponym of douse; that is, bedraggle is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than douse:

Other hyponyms of douse include brine, draggle, bate, ret, flush, sluice.

douse (verb)	bedraggle (verb)
cover with liquid; pour liquid onto	make wet and dirty, as from rain
slacken
lower quickly
immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
dip into a liquid
wet thoroughly
put out, as of a candle or a light