Crossword clues for drenching
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.''
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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
n. The act by which something is drenched; a soaking. vb. (present participle of drench English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "drenching".
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.
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.
A Latino in a blue polo shirt and green work trousers was hosing down the street directly outside the main doors, while the greenery along the front of the building was getting a drenching from the irrigation system.
Sweat was pouring off his lardy face in rivulets, drenching the ornate cloak.
With rainfall, Nelding achieved elemental harmony, skies as dark as tree shadow, waters feeding slippery mud and glossy vine with drenching generosity.
Most gentlemen regarded them with affection, but rumors sometimes told of ladies drenching an especially hated Phane in tincture of ammonia, which matted her pelt and destroyed her gauze forever.
It shook itself as a dog will, drenching the urisk and girl, before rolling enthusiastically in a dust-patch.
But they took her aboard, drenching her with stinging antiseptics, scorching her skin with bactericidal ultraviolet rays.
The detachment commander was entirely without tentage from the 25th of June until the 5th of August--forty-five days in the rainy season in Cuba, exposed to the torrid sun by day, to chilling dews by night, and the drenching rains of the afternoon, without shelter from any inclemencies of the weather, and this in spite of repeated applications to proper authorities for the suitable allowance of tentage.
It was even said that he had gone as a pilgrim to Spain for no other reason than to bespeak the puissant aid of Saint James against his enemies at home, and that his sudden death had providentially saved the Limousin from a drenching with blood.
Up on the tops of the Great Divide three hundred miles to the east, snow lay thicker than in many years, but no rain had fallen west of Burren Junction since the monsoonal drenching of the previous summer.
Waterspouts, twenty feet in diameter at their turbulent bases, streaked up whitely into the twilight, high above the truncated masts, hung there momentarily, then collapsed in drenching cascades on the bridge and boat-deck aft, soaking, saturating, every gunner on the pom-pom and in the open Oerlikon cockpits.
She screamed against his mouth, the hot pulsing flesh of her vagina trembling against his hands, drenching him in a burning wetness that felt far silkier and thicker than the water that surrounded them.
They drove by in interminable files of grey, making sluiceways of every cut and drenching continually the men of the construction gang who, in spite of the chill of that downfall, still sweated at their labor.
He tried drenching another cow with mashed up ticks made into a soup-but that cow too seemed to enjoy her strange dose.