Drench

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To wet through and through; soak.
  • v. To administer a large oral dose of liquid medicine to (an animal).
  • v. To provide with something in great abundance; surfeit: just drenched in money.
  • n. The act of wetting or becoming wet through and through.
  • n. Something that drenches: a drench of rain.
  • n. A large dose of liquid medicine, especially one administered to an animal by pouring down the throat.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A draught administered to an animal.
  • v. To soak, to make very wet.
  • n. A military vassal, mentioned in the Domesday Book.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. 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.
  • v. To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.
  • n. A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
  • n. A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To wet thoroughly; soak; steep; fill or cover with water or other liquid: as, garments drenched with rain or in the sea; swords drenched in blood; the flood has drenched the earth.
  • To gorge or satiate with a fluid: as, he drenched himself with liquor.
  • Specifically, to administer liquid physic to abundantly, especially in a forcible way.
  • . To drown.
  • To subject (hides) to the effect of soaking and stirring in a solution of animal excrements or an alkaline solution.
  • To drown.
  • n. A drink; a draught.
  • n. A large draught of fluid; an inordinate drink.
  • n. Hence A draught of physic; specifically, a dose of medicine for a beast, as a horse.
  • n. That with or in which something is drenched; a provision or preparation for drenching or steeping.
  • n. A less correct form of dreng.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. permeate or impregnate
  • v. drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
  • v. force to drink
  • v. cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
  • Verb Form
    drenched    drenches    drenching   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    impregnate    saturate    flood    provide    cater    supply    ply   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    soak    immerse    drink    draught    dose    potion    physic   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bench    French    Hench    bench    clench    entrench    french    hench    quench    rench   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    torrential    sleety    arrowy    drizzly    downpour    soak    briny    gusty    clammy    cleanse