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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
drench
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be drenched/soaked with sweat (=be covered in a lot of sweat)
▪ His shirt was drenched with sweat.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sweat
▪ The body is alone and fearful when one awakens at three in the morning, sheets drenched through with night sweats.
▪ My eyelids were swollen shut, and I was drenched with sweat.
▪ When at last she was able to stand upright in safety, her knees buckled and her body was drenched with sweat.
▪ All are drenched in sweat from the grueling morning workout.
▪ She was drenched in sweat and her mouth was dry.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drenched in/with light
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Blood was pouring from the cut, drenching his shirt.
▪ He turned the hose on us and drenched us all.
▪ I forgot my umbrella and got drenched.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Flames set light to his jacket and Mr Williams was helped into a nearby toilet where his hands were drenched with water.
▪ In the first piece these are drenched with red and black paint from the spray paint cans.
▪ It was even proposed at one point that the reef itself should simply be drenched in copper.
▪ When at last she was able to stand upright in safety, her knees buckled and her body was drenched with sweat.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drench

Drench \Drench\, n. [AS. drenc. See Drench, v. t.] A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging. ``A drench of wine.''
--Dryden.

Give my roan horse a drench.
--Shak.

Drench

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.

Drench

Drench \Drench\, n. [AS. dreng warrior, soldier, akin to Icel. drengr.] (O. Eng. Law) A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book. [Obs.]
--Burrill.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
drench

c.1200, "to submerge, drown," from Old English drencan "give drink to, ply with drink, make drunk; soak, saturate; submerge, drown," causative of drincan "to drink" (see drink), from Proto-Germanic *drankijan (cognates: Old Norse drekkja, Swedish dränka, Dutch drenken, German tränken, Gothic dragkjan "to give to drink"). Sense of "to wet thoroughly by throwing liquid over" is from c.1550. Related: Drenched; drenching.

Wiktionary
drench

Etymology 1 n. 1 A draught administered to an animal. 2 (context obsolete English) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purge. vb. 1 To soak, to make very wet. 2 To cause to drink; especially, to dose (e.g. a horse) with medicine by force. Etymology 2

n. (context obsolete UK English) A military vassal, mentioned in the Domesday Book.

WordNet
drench
  1. v. drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor" [syn: swamp]

  2. force to drink

  3. permeate or impregnate; "The war drenched the country in blood" [syn: imbrue]

  4. cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" [syn: douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse]

Wikipedia
Drench

Drench is a brand of bottled spring water owned by Britvic. Drench is one of a range of water brands from Britvic, which includes Pennine Spring and Fruit Shoot H20.

Drench (disambiguation)

Drench means to soak or make very wet.

Drench may also refer to:

  • Drench, a brand of bottled spring water
  • "Drench", a song from the album In Our Gun by Gomez
  • Drenching, an alternate term for deworming
  • Drench additive, used to help fight fires
  • Drench (Transformers)

Usage examples of "drench".

As it was, the spray drenched everyone aboard, causing them to bend their backs that much harder, long before Dunlop screamed at them to do so.

Pantheon, composed of porphyry, pavonazzetto, and giallo antico, tho constantly overflowed by the Tiber, and drenched by the rains which fall upon it from the roof, is the finest in Rome.

Each scrape of his tongue across the sensitive areola and nub sent heated shockwaves straight to her pussy, drenching his cock with more of her cream.

And she drenched her bosom with ceaseless tears, which flowed in torrents as she sat, bitterly bewailing her own fate.

Let the haughty, purse-proud American--in whose warm life current one may trace the unmistakable strains of bichloride of gold and trichinae--pause for one moment to gaze at the coarse features and bloodshot eyes of his ancestors, who sat up at nights drenching their souls in a style of nepenthe that it is said would remove moths, tan, freckles, and political disabilities.

The rains that had abandoned this land now drenched the Bight of Africa, engulfing abandoned cities there.

Even with the heated stones, the water was still icy cold, and I had to cling to the rough timber of the bothy to remain standing as Sionan doused me until I was drenched, and then she began to wash me.

When he pulled the last chock of rubber free, he was drenched with sweat, and the flatcar still remained motionless.

In some places a drenched and irate citizenry raised the alarm immediately, while others were left to awaken to peculiar smells and woefully soggy carpeting.

The Combmaker, when he appeared, was decidedly and quite happily drenched.

He snicked the Derailleur gears up five sprockets and stood on the pedals, swooping down towards the city centre on the traffic-free road, the cool morning air chilling the sweat of fear that had drenched him in that terrifying moment when it looked as if his well-laid plan had gone wrong.

So have I slept beneath The naked heavens, pillowed by a stone, With no more shelter than the wind-stirred branches, While the thick dews of our Valencian nights Drenched my rude weeds, and chilled through blood and bone.

The cloth was so drenched in the exudations of the sackmaker that it had absorbed them like an enfleurage paste and could be directly subjected to lavage.

The island seemed strangely gloomy, enshadowed, while all the sea around it was drenched in fierce tropical sunlight.

The Englishman, whose right eye was nearly closed, took his corner where he was liberally drenched with water and when the bell went came on gamey and brimful of pluck, confident of knocking out the fistic Eblanite in jigtime.