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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
drenched
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be drenched/soaked with sweat (=be covered in a lot of sweat)
▪ His shirt was drenched with sweat.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Everyone got completely drenched when a huge wave hit the boat.
▪ The two and a half hour walk in the wind and rain left us drenched.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And yet the place was drenched, as with water, so with a fearful smell of burning.
▪ On his return he haughtily threw off his drenched clothes.
▪ Steward needed three shots to escape his watery grave and had a drenched set of waterproofs to prove it.
▪ Their main danger is that their entire home will become drenched and waterlogged.
▪ We were getting drenched, and it made me smile.
▪ Within seconds the car is drenched.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drenched

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["a]nka, G. tr["a]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.

    As ``to fell,'' is ``to make to fall,'' and ``to lay,'' to make to lie.'' so ``to drench,'' is ``to make to drink.''
    --Trench.

  2. To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.

    Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain; Their moisture has already drenched the plain.
    --Dryden.

Wiktionary
drenched
  1. Completely wet; sodden v

  2. (en-past of: drench)

WordNet
drenched
  1. adj. 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]

Wikipedia
Drenched (album)

Drenched is the third full-length album by Miracle Legion, and the only recorded on the Morgan Creek Records label, released in 1992.

Usage examples of "drenched".

It was lying on its side, trembling all over, drenched with rain and lather.

Branches shaken by her passage drenched her with water and the pungent smell of sage.

Cold horror drenched her when she saw Jason darting down his stairway to the beach, coming to visit her as he had on so many dawns.

The memory of that thick triangle pressing against her drenched pantelets had haunted him mercilessly.

She had never felt anything like it, never known she could be drenched and burning at the same time.

He seemed to be immune to weariness, and he ignored the steamy humidity that drained her strength and drenched her clothes in perspiration.

Blood drenched his shirt and pants, and he could feel himself weakening, his head becoming light from the pain and blood loss.

His black hair was drenched with sweat and plastered to his skull, and his eyes were bloodshot from pulling Gs.

But no matter how hot the sex he enjoyed in other women's beds, it was dreams of Roanna that woke him in the cool early mornings before dawn, drenched in sweat and his dick standing up like an iron spike.

Her car was parked close to the end of a row, and if she hurried all that distance, she "Were would be drenched in sweat by the time she got to it.

A great spray of blood drenched his clothes, but Huwe kept coming, his small eyes mad with rage.

The crush of bodies hid the wounded woman’s face, but David could see that her dress was drenched with blood and he immediately switched into emergency mode.

He’d spent too many hours in the steaming tropical heat after a sudden downpour had drenched him to the skin, and the expe­rience had given him an intense dislike of getting his clothes wet.

Her face was drenched in blood, and they’d fitted a cervical collar on her.

Nor did the wet nightgown clinging to her soaked body appear to bother her, or the drenched and clinging tail her long, unbound hair had become.