Drench \Drench\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drenched; p. pr. & vb. n.
Drenching.] [AS. drencan to give to drink, to drench, the
causal of drincan to drink; akin to D. drenken, Sw.
dr[aum]nka, G. tr[aum]nken. See Drink.]
1. To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a
potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge
violently by physic.
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As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to
make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink."
--Trench.
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2. To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to
saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.
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Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain;
Their moisture has already drenched the plain.
--Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
drenched
adj 1: wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door
drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "a shirt saturated
with perspiration"; "his shoes were sopping (or
soaking)"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy
clothes" [syn: saturated, soaked, soaking, sodden,
sopping, soppy]
2: abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in
combination; "drenched in moonlight"; "moon-drenched
meadows" [syn: drenched in]
WordNet (r) 2.0
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "drenched":
addled, awash, bathed, beery, bemused, besotted, blind drunk,
bloated, bursting, choked, congested, crammed, crapulent,
crapulous, crowded, deluged, dipped, distended, dizzy, dribbling,
dripping, dripping wet, drowned, drunk, drunken, engulfed,
far-gone, filled to overflowing, flooded, flustered, fou, full,
gay, giddy, glorious, glutted, gorged, happy, hyperemic, immersed,
in liquor, in spate, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated,
inundated, jam-packed, jammed, jolly, macerated, maudlin, mellow,
merry, muddled, nappy, oozing, overblown, overburdened,
overcharged, overfed, overflowed, overflowing, overfraught,
overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstocked,
overstuffed, oversupplied, overweighted, packed, permeated,
plethoric, ready to burst, reeling, running over, satiated,
saturated, seeping, shikker, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky,
sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, sotted, soused,
steeped, stuffed, stuffed up, submerged, submersed, supercharged,
supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swamped, swollen, tiddly,
tipsy, under the influence, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping,
weltering, wet, whelmed, wringing wet
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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