douse vs ret

douse and ret both are verbs.

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

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

douse: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
ret: place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue

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

douse (verb)	ret (verb)
cover with liquid; pour liquid onto	place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue
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