drenchn.

/drɛnʃ/

Forms: Old English drenc(e, Middle English drænc, drencche, drunch, Middle English drenche, drenke, Middle English– drench.

Etymology: Old English dręnc draught, drink, drowning < Old Germanic *draŋki-z , < draŋk- ablaut grade of driŋk-an to drink n. Compare Gothic draggk, dragk, Old Saxon dranc, Old High German tranch (German trank) < Old Germanic *draŋko^m, and Old High German trenka feminine < Old Germanic *draŋkjâ.

†1. Drink; a draught. Obsolete in general sense.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > [noun]

drencha800

drunka800

drinkc888

wetec897

liquor1340

beveragec1400

bever?1453

pitcher-meat1551

bum1570

pot1583

nin1611

sorbition1623

potablesa1625

potion1634

refreshment1639

potulent1656

sorbicle1657

pote1694

drinkable1708

potation1742

rinfresco1745

sup1782

bouvragea1815

potatory1834

a800 Corpus Gloss. 166 Antedo [antidotum], wyrtdrenc.

c1000 Coll. Monast. (Thornton) 35 (Bosw.) Win nys drenc cilda.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6706 Heo hafden drænc heo hafden mete.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 130 Þer ne is noþer king ne kuene þet ne ssel drinke of deaþes drench.

2. spec. A medicinal, soporific, or poisonous draught; a potion. From 1600 often (after 3): A large draught or potion, or one forcibly given.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > medicinal potion or draught > [noun]

drenchc1000

drink1362

supping medicinea1400

poisonc1400

potionc1400

potationa1475

draught1631

potent1902

c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 56 Wyrc drenc wiþ hwostan.

c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 158 Se drenc deadbær wæs.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 151 He ȝef hym a luþer drench.

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 1386 Sche fet him a drench þat noble was & mad him drynk it warm.

1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 126 A poysoned drench.

1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes ii. iv. 31 in Wks. II A drench of sacke At a good tauerne..Would cure him.

1663 Recreation for Ingenious Head-peeces sig. Aa3^v This muddy drench of Ale.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 73 If the sleepy drench Of that forgetful Lake benumme not still.

1859 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 286 Girls are fattened to a vast bulk by drenches of curds and cream thickened with flour.

1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. ii. 124 Guido..Shook off the relics of his poison-drench.

figurative.1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 324 With concubynes and drenches of Baudrye.1641 J. Milton Animadversions 20 To diet their ignorance..with the limited draught of a Mattin, and even song drench.1891 E. H. Hickey in Athenæum 24 Oct. 549/2 The sleepy drench of Time.

3. A draught or dose of medicine administered to an animal.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > medicines or applications > draught of medicine

drench1552

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Drench or drynke for horse or other beast, saluiatum.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 144 Poure this drench with an horne downe the throat of laboring jades.

1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. iv. 66 Administred by way of Drench to a horse.

a1748 I. Watts Ontol. x. ii. §4 A farrier constrains him to take a drench.

1864 C. Knight Passages Working Life I. ii. 151 No cattle-doctor would give a drench to a cow unless he consulted the table in the Almanack.

4. The act of drenching, soaking, or wetting thoroughly; such a quantity as drenches.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [noun] > action or process

soak1598

drenching1626

sobbing1664

saturation1732

flooding1799

swamping1802

drench1807

water-soaking1849

soddening1852

soakage1867

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 42 Wide over earth his annual freshet strays, And highland drains with lowland drench repays.

1850 R. Browning Christmas-eve iii. 10 Quench The gin-shop's light in Hell's grim drench.

1893 S. Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Zita III. xxxiv. 114 A drench of rain.

5. Tanning. A preparation in which skins are steeped. Cf. drenche-kive n. at Compounds.

ΚΠ

1853 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (new ed.) 410 Skins..undergo a steeping, for ten or fifteen days, in a fermenting mixture, or ‘drench’, of forty pounds of bran and twenty gallons of water.

Compounds

drench-horn n. (originally Old English drenc-horn a drinking horn), a horn used for giving a medicinal drench to animals.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > veterinary equipment > device for administering drench

drench-horn?c1000

drenching-horn1639

drencher1893

drenching-gun1950

?c1000 Cod. Dipl. 722 (Kemble) III. 361 (Bosw.) Ic geann into ðære stowe ðone drenc-horn ðe ic ær [MS. er] æt ðam hirede gebohte.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 325/2 The Farriers Drench Horn.

† drenche-kive n. Obsolete a drenching vat or tub (see sense 5).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > open vessels for liquids > [noun] > vat

keevec1000

vata1225

drenche-kivea1300

fatc1450

kier1573

back1682

a1300 Sat. People Kildare xiv, in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 155 Hail be ȝe skinners wiþ ȝure drenche kiue, Who so smilliþ þer-to wo is him aliue.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

drenchv.

/drɛnʃ/

Forms: Old English drencan, Middle English drenchen, Middle English–1500s drenche, (Middle English drensche, dr(e)inche, Middle English drynche), Middle English– drench. past tense Old English–Middle English drencte, Middle English dreint(e, Middle English drengte, Middle English–1500s dreynt(e, Middle English dreynkt(e, Middle English drenkte, dreyncte, Middle English draynt(e, drenckt, 1500s–1600s drent(e. β. Middle English drenchid(e, -yd, Middle English– drenched, 1500s–1600s drencht. past participle Old English drenct, Middle English dreint, etc., 1500s drent, drint, drynt. β. Middle English– drenched, 1500s–1600s drencht.

Etymology: Old English dręncan = Old Saxon dręnkian (Dutch drenken), Old High German trenchen (German tränken), Old Norse drekkja < drenkja (Swedish dränka) < Old Germanic *draŋkjan, < draŋk, ablaut grade of driŋkan to drink, of which it is the causative.

1. transitive. To make to drink; to administer drink to; now spec. to administer a draught of medicine in a forcible manner to (an animal).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [verb (transitive)]

birleOE

drenchc1000

shenchOE

adrenchc1275

to drink to1297

tap1401

skinkc1405

propinec1450

brince?1567

liquor1575

to do right1600

dram1770

butler1826

jerk1868

to set up1880

drink1883

bartend1948

to break out1962

the world > life > death > manner of death > die in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > die of drowning

adrinkeOE

drunkenc950

drenchc1000

adrenchc1230

drenklec1330

drown1382

fordrench1430

to be food for fishes1561

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > make very wet [verb (transitive)]

drenchc1000

washc1275

drowna1300

drunkena1300

drunka1382

bewetc1400

bedrenchc1450

bucka1513

sowp1513

drooka1522

sousea1542

soaken1577

overdrown1579

soss1587

embay1590

steep1590

overdrencha1592

embathe1593

indrench1593

imbue1594

douse1606

besob1609

bucket1621

sob1625

dash1670

sop1682

saturate1696

float1729

water1754

sodden1812

douche1864

poach1881

tosh1883

sod1895

the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > practise veterinary medicine and surgery [verb (transitive)] > give specific treatment

scour1489

setter1551

rowel1566

drench1672

salt1898

fistulate1902

worm1932

deworm1934

c1000 Ags. Ps. lix. [lx.] 3 Ðu..hi..mid wynsume wine drenctest.

a1400–50 Alexander 1106 Þou sall be drenchid of a drinke a draȝte of vnsele.

1592 S. Daniel Complaint Rosamond 29, in Wks. (1717) 54 Take it [i.e. poison], or I will drench you else by force.

1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius War with Vandals ii. 55 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian The drink proceeding, and Gontharis being well drencht, and grown bountifull, gave of his meats to the guard.

1672 J. Lacy Dumb Lady i. 7 I'l to the Wood and drench a sick horse.

1756 S. Foote Englishman return'd from Paris i. 27 Madam, drench'd with a Bumper, drops a Courtsey, and departs.

1808 W. Scott Marmion v. xxii. 274 A stranger maiden..Had drenched him with a beverage rare.

1893 H. Dalziel Dis. Dogs (ed. 3) 2 It is necessary to drench him.

figurative.1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xxxii 42 I shal drenche myn arewis in blood, and my swerd shal deuour flesh.

†2. To submerge in water; to drown. Also reflexive. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by drowning

adrenchOE

drunkenc1175

ofdrunkenc1175

drenchc1200

drowna1300

drenklea1325

drunka1375

stiflea1387

drinkc1425

overfleetc1425

bishop1840

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > dip or plunge into liquid > cause to sink in a liquid

senchOE

asenchOE

sinkc1175

drenchc1200

adrenchc1300

drenklea1325

submerse?a1425

drownc1465

submerge1490

sommerse1632

whelm1725

whemmel1824

c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 175 Gif he ship findeþ, he fondeð to drenchen hit ȝif he mai.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6043 Summe heo heom drengte [c1300 Otho adreinte]. in þere sæ deope.

c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 561 I shal dreinchen him in þe se.

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 670 They pryuely been stirt in to a welle And dreynte [v.rr. drenkte, dreynt, dreinte] hem seluen.

a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 55 Nor no water shulde drenche her, nor fyre brenne her.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Z7 Condemned to be drent.

1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis viii. 165 And in the strangling waters drencht his child.

figurative.a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §293 302 The Dart drencheth itself into that river.

†3. intransitive. To sink in water; to be drowned. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > sink > in liquid

sinkOE

drench1297

drenklec1330

to go downa1475

replunge1611

submerge1652

swamp1795

to go under1820

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 100 Þe se biset ow al a boute..ȝe mowe..drenche.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 2008 He dreynte þerin.

c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1747 Þat in þis flod we drench natt.

a1547 Earl of Surrey Poems (1964) 22 Alas, now drencheth my swete fo.

1570 Abp. M. Parker Let. 3 Apr. in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 364 I was like to have drenched in the midst of the Thames.

figurative.c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 902 (930) Þough ye boþe in salte teris drenche [Harl. dreynte].c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Ariadne. 1919 And let hire drenche in sorwe & in distresse.

a. transitive. To wet thoroughly by immersion; to steep, soak, saturate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > make wet [verb (transitive)]

weta950

bathec1000

drenchc1230

blotenc1325

danka1350

anointa1375

moista1382

beshed1382

moil?a1425

madefy?1440

arrouse1480

moisturea1500

humect1531

intinct1547

moisten1559

rinse1579

inebriate1610

irrigate1615

slocken1627

irriguate1632

humectate1640

madidate1656

slake1810

c1230 Hali Meid. 15 His earewen idrencte of an attri haliwei.

c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 370 Let drenche it for a tyme in water swete.

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxliii. 274 A..spunge drenched in white Vineger of Roses.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 116 Good Shepherds after sheering, drench their Sheep.

1719 E. Young Busiris v. 61 I'll drench my Sword in thy detested Blood.

1746–7 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 152 The nails, which were drenched in his sacred veins.

b. Tanning. (See quots.)

ΚΠ

1853 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (new ed.) 413 The skins are..drenched for some days in a fermenting bran-bath.

1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 276/1 To ‘drench’..the hides are placed for six or eight hours in vats filled with a dissolved excrement, above which a line of large wooden..wheels..in their revolution turn them over and over in the solution.

5. Now esp. To wet through and through with liquid falling or thrown upon the object.

ΚΠ

1549–62 T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalms cxxxiii. 343 It weat not Aaron's head alone, but drencht his beard throughout.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 53 Many fields have been drencht with blood.

1716 J. Gay Trivia i. 4 And Show'rs soon drench the Camlet's cockled Grain.

1832 Ld. Tennyson Dream Fair Women xxv, in Poems (new ed.) 128 Dark woodwalks drenched in dew.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe ii. 94 A thunderstorm drenched us during our descent.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems ci. 9 Drench'd in a brother's tears, and weeping freshly, receives them.

†6. figurative. To drown, immerse, plunge, overwhelm.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > crush, stifle, or overwhelm (feelings, etc.)

shendOE

whelvec1000

allayOE

ofdrunkenc1175

quenchc1175

quashc1275

stanchc1315

quella1325

slockena1340

drenchc1374

vanquishc1380

stuffa1387

daunt?a1400

adauntc1400

to put downa1425

overwhelmc1425

overwhelvec1450

quatc1450

slockc1485

suppressa1500

suffocate1526

quealc1530

to trample under foot1530

repress1532

quail1533

suppress1537

infringe1543

revocate1547

whelm1553

queasom1561

knetcha1564

squench1577

restinguish1579

to keep down1581

trample1583

repel1592

accable1602

crush1610

to wrestle down?1611

chokea1616

stranglea1616

stifle1621

smother1632

overpower1646

resuppress1654

strangulate1665

instranglea1670

to choke back, down, in, out1690

to nip or crush in the bud1746

spiflicate1749

squasha1777

to get under1799

burke1835

to stamp out1851

to trample down1853

quelch1864

to sit upon ——1864

squelch1864

smash1865

garrotte1878

scotch1888

douse1916

to drive under1920

stomp1936

stultify1958

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) i. metr. i. 1 The sorwful howre þat is to seyn the deth hadde almost dreynt myn heued.

c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) lxvi. 303 He drenchith þe synner in Ivill thowtis.

1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. C His sonne, Is drente in debte so deepe.

1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iv. f. 53 He..was drint into dispair.

a1628 J. Preston New Covenant (1630) 198 Men much drenched in worldly business.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India III. vi. i. 45 Minds drenched with terror are easily deceived.

Derivatives

drenched adj.

/drɛnʃt/

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > manner of death > [adjective] > from drowning

drowneda1300

drenta1350

drencheda1400

ydreynt1426

drowning1488

ydrownd1603

spent1626

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective]

thorough wetOE

drunk1382

drunkenc1420

uliginosec1440

dung wetc1450

drookeda1522

wet through, to the skin1526

sogginga1552

washed1557

washy1566

muck-wet1567

wringing wet1570

drenched1589

dropsy1605

ydrenched1610

sobby1611

dropsieda1616

slocken1643

uliginous1650

dabbling1661

sodded1661

sobbing1664

sobbed1693

flashy1702

saturated1728

saturate1785

livereda1796

sappy1806

laving1812

sodden1820

sopped1822

soppy1823

soaked1829

dropsical1845

soddened1845

soaking wet1847

soggya1852

sogged1860

soaking1864

sopping1866

soaken1898

astream1929

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 1886 A drenched beest.

1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. B4 To drie their drenched apparaile.

1660 J. Gauden Mem. Bp. Brounrigg 212 A drenched and almost drowned man.

1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 276/1 The drenched hides..are..worked over a beam.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	drench
释义	drenchn. /drɛnʃ/ Forms: Old English drenc(e, Middle English drænc, drencche, drunch, Middle English drenche, drenke, Middle English– drench. Etymology: Old English dręnc draught, drink, drowning < Old Germanic draŋki-z , < draŋk-* ablaut grade of driŋk-an to drink n. Compare Gothic draggk, dragk, Old Saxon dranc, Old High German tranch (German trank) < Old Germanic draŋko^m, and Old High German trenka* feminine < Old Germanic draŋkjâ. †1. Drink; a draught. Obsolete* in general sense. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > [noun] drencha800 drunka800 drinkc888 wetec897 liquor1340 beveragec1400 bever?1453 pitcher-meat1551 bum1570 pot1583 nin1611 sorbition1623 potablesa1625 potion1634 refreshment1639 potulent1656 sorbicle1657 pote1694 drinkable1708 potation1742 rinfresco1745 sup1782 bouvragea1815 potatory1834 a800 Corpus Gloss. 166 Antedo [antidotum], wyrtdrenc. c1000 Coll. Monast. (Thornton) 35 (Bosw.) Win nys drenc cilda. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6706 Heo hafden drænc heo hafden mete. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 130 Þer ne is noþer king ne kuene þet ne ssel drinke of deaþes drench. 2. spec. A medicinal, soporific, or poisonous draught; a potion. From 1600 often (after 3): A large draught or potion, or one forcibly given. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > medicinal potion or draught > [noun] drenchc1000 drink1362 supping medicinea1400 poisonc1400 potionc1400 potationa1475 draught1631 potent1902 c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 56 Wyrc drenc wiþ hwostan. c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 158 Se drenc deadbær wæs. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 151 He ȝef hym a luþer drench. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 1386 Sche fet him a drench þat noble was & mad him drynk it warm. 1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 126 A poysoned drench. 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes ii. iv. 31 in Wks. II A drench of sacke At a good tauerne..Would cure him. 1663 Recreation for Ingenious Head-peeces sig. Aa3^v This muddy drench of Ale. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 73 If the sleepy drench Of that forgetful Lake benumme not still. View more context for this quotation 1859 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 286 Girls are fattened to a vast bulk by drenches of curds and cream thickened with flour. 1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. ii. 124 Guido..Shook off the relics of his poison-drench. figurative.1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 324 With concubynes and drenches of Baudrye.1641 J. Milton Animadversions 20 To diet their ignorance..with the limited draught of a Mattin, and even song drench.1891 E. H. Hickey in Athenæum 24 Oct. 549/2 The sleepy drench of Time. 3. A draught or dose of medicine administered to an animal. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > medicines or applications > draught of medicine drench1552 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Drench or drynke for horse or other beast, saluiatum. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 144 Poure this drench with an horne downe the throat of laboring jades. 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. iv. 66 Administred by way of Drench to a horse. a1748 I. Watts Ontol. x. ii. §4 A farrier constrains him to take a drench. 1864 C. Knight Passages Working Life I. ii. 151 No cattle-doctor would give a drench to a cow unless he consulted the table in the Almanack. 4. The act of drenching, soaking, or wetting thoroughly; such a quantity as drenches. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [noun] > action or process soak1598 drenching1626 sobbing1664 saturation1732 flooding1799 swamping1802 drench1807 water-soaking1849 soddening1852 soakage1867 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 42 Wide over earth his annual freshet strays, And highland drains with lowland drench repays. 1850 R. Browning Christmas-eve iii. 10 Quench The gin-shop's light in Hell's grim drench. 1893 S. Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Zita III. xxxiv. 114 A drench of rain. 5. Tanning. A preparation in which skins are steeped. Cf. drenche-kive n. at Compounds. ΚΠ 1853 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (new ed.) 410 Skins..undergo a steeping, for ten or fifteen days, in a fermenting mixture, or ‘drench’, of forty pounds of bran and twenty gallons of water. Compounds drench-horn n. (originally Old English drenc-horn a drinking horn), a horn used for giving a medicinal drench to animals. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > veterinary equipment > device for administering drench drench-horn?c1000 drenching-horn1639 drencher1893 drenching-gun1950 ?c1000 Cod. Dipl. 722 (Kemble) III. 361 (Bosw.) Ic geann into ðære stowe ðone drenc-horn ðe ic ær [MS. er] æt ðam hirede gebohte. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 325/2 The Farriers Drench Horn. † drenche-kive n. Obsolete a drenching vat or tub (see sense 5). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > open vessels for liquids > [noun] > vat keevec1000 vata1225 drenche-kivea1300 fatc1450 kier1573 back1682 a1300 Sat. People Kildare xiv, in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 155 Hail be ȝe skinners wiþ ȝure drenche kiue, Who so smilliþ þer-to wo is him aliue. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). drenchv. /drɛnʃ/ Forms: Old English drencan, Middle English drenchen, Middle English–1500s drenche, (Middle English drensche, dr(e)inche, Middle English drynche), Middle English– drench. past tense Old English–Middle English drencte, Middle English dreint(e, Middle English drengte, Middle English–1500s dreynt(e, Middle English dreynkt(e, Middle English drenkte, dreyncte, Middle English draynt(e, drenckt, 1500s–1600s drent(e. β. Middle English drenchid(e, -yd, Middle English– drenched, 1500s–1600s drencht. past participle Old English drenct, Middle English dreint, etc., 1500s drent, drint, drynt. β. Middle English– drenched, 1500s–1600s drencht. Etymology: Old English dręncan = Old Saxon dręnkian (Dutch drenken), Old High German trenchen (German tränken), Old Norse drekkja < drenkja (Swedish dränka) < Old Germanic draŋkjan, < draŋk, ablaut grade of driŋkan* to drink, of which it is the causative. 1. transitive. To make to drink; to administer drink to; now spec. to administer a draught of medicine in a forcible manner to (an animal). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [verb (transitive)] birleOE drenchc1000 shenchOE adrenchc1275 to drink to1297 tap1401 skinkc1405 propinec1450 brince?1567 liquor1575 to do right1600 dram1770 butler1826 jerk1868 to set up1880 drink1883 bartend1948 to break out1962 the world > life > death > manner of death > die in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > die of drowning adrinkeOE drunkenc950 drenchc1000 adrenchc1230 drenklec1330 drown1382 fordrench1430 to be food for fishes1561 the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > make very wet [verb (transitive)] drenchc1000 washc1275 drowna1300 drunkena1300 drunka1382 bewetc1400 bedrenchc1450 bucka1513 sowp1513 drooka1522 sousea1542 soaken1577 overdrown1579 soss1587 embay1590 steep1590 overdrencha1592 embathe1593 indrench1593 imbue1594 douse1606 besob1609 bucket1621 sob1625 dash1670 sop1682 saturate1696 float1729 water1754 sodden1812 douche1864 poach1881 tosh1883 sod1895 the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > practise veterinary medicine and surgery [verb (transitive)] > give specific treatment scour1489 setter1551 rowel1566 drench1672 salt1898 fistulate1902 worm1932 deworm1934 c1000 Ags. Ps. lix. [lx.] 3 Ðu..hi..mid wynsume wine drenctest. a1400–50 Alexander 1106 Þou sall be drenchid of a drinke a draȝte of vnsele. 1592 S. Daniel Complaint Rosamond 29, in Wks. (1717) 54 Take it [i.e. poison], or I will drench you else by force. 1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius War with Vandals ii. 55 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian The drink proceeding, and Gontharis being well drencht, and grown bountifull, gave of his meats to the guard. 1672 J. Lacy Dumb Lady i. 7 I'l to the Wood and drench a sick horse. 1756 S. Foote Englishman return'd from Paris i. 27 Madam, drench'd with a Bumper, drops a Courtsey, and departs. 1808 W. Scott Marmion v. xxii. 274 A stranger maiden..Had drenched him with a beverage rare. 1893 H. Dalziel Dis. Dogs (ed. 3) 2 It is necessary to drench him. figurative.1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xxxii 42 I shal drenche myn arewis in blood, and my swerd shal deuour flesh. †2. To submerge in water; to drown. Also reflexive. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by drowning adrenchOE drunkenc1175 ofdrunkenc1175 drenchc1200 drowna1300 drenklea1325 drunka1375 stiflea1387 drinkc1425 overfleetc1425 bishop1840 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > dip or plunge into liquid > cause to sink in a liquid senchOE asenchOE sinkc1175 drenchc1200 adrenchc1300 drenklea1325 submerse?a1425 drownc1465 submerge1490 sommerse1632 whelm1725 whemmel1824 c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 175 Gif he ship findeþ, he fondeð to drenchen hit ȝif he mai. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6043 Summe heo heom drengte [c1300 Otho adreinte]. in þere sæ deope. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 561 I shal dreinchen him in þe se. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 670 They pryuely been stirt in to a welle And dreynte [v.rr. drenkte, dreynt, dreinte] hem seluen. a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 55 Nor no water shulde drenche her, nor fyre brenne her. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Z7 Condemned to be drent. 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis viii. 165 And in the strangling waters drencht his child. figurative.a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §293 302 The Dart drencheth itself into that river. †3. intransitive. To sink in water; to be drowned. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > sink > in liquid sinkOE drench1297 drenklec1330 to go downa1475 replunge1611 submerge1652 swamp1795 to go under1820 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 100 Þe se biset ow al a boute..ȝe mowe..drenche. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 2008 He dreynte þerin. c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1747 Þat in þis flod we drench natt. a1547 Earl of Surrey Poems (1964) 22 Alas, now drencheth my swete fo. 1570 Abp. M. Parker Let. 3 Apr. in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 364 I was like to have drenched in the midst of the Thames. figurative.c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 902 (930) Þough ye boþe in salte teris drenche [Harl. dreynte].c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Ariadne. 1919 And let hire drenche in sorwe & in distresse. 4. a. transitive. To wet thoroughly by immersion; to steep, soak, saturate. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > make wet [verb (transitive)] weta950 bathec1000 drenchc1230 blotenc1325 danka1350 anointa1375 moista1382 beshed1382 moil?a1425 madefy?1440 arrouse1480 moisturea1500 humect1531 intinct1547 moisten1559 rinse1579 inebriate1610 irrigate1615 slocken1627 irriguate1632 humectate1640 madidate1656 slake1810 c1230 Hali Meid. 15 His earewen idrencte of an attri haliwei. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 370 Let drenche it for a tyme in water swete. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxliii. 274 A..spunge drenched in white Vineger of Roses. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 116 Good Shepherds after sheering, drench their Sheep. View more context for this quotation 1719 E. Young Busiris v. 61 I'll drench my Sword in thy detested Blood. 1746–7 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 152 The nails, which were drenched in his sacred veins. b. Tanning. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1853 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (new ed.) 413 The skins are..drenched for some days in a fermenting bran-bath. 1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 276/1 To ‘drench’..the hides are placed for six or eight hours in vats filled with a dissolved excrement, above which a line of large wooden..wheels..in their revolution turn them over and over in the solution. 5. Now esp. To wet through and through with liquid falling or thrown upon the object. ΚΠ 1549–62 T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalms cxxxiii. 343 It weat not Aaron's head alone, but drencht his beard throughout. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 53 Many fields have been drencht with blood. 1716 J. Gay Trivia i. 4 And Show'rs soon drench the Camlet's cockled Grain. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Dream Fair Women xxv, in Poems (new ed.) 128 Dark woodwalks drenched in dew. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe ii. 94 A thunderstorm drenched us during our descent. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems ci. 9 Drench'd in a brother's tears, and weeping freshly, receives them. †6. figurative. To drown, immerse, plunge, overwhelm. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > crush, stifle, or overwhelm (feelings, etc.) shendOE whelvec1000 allayOE ofdrunkenc1175 quenchc1175 quashc1275 stanchc1315 quella1325 slockena1340 drenchc1374 vanquishc1380 stuffa1387 daunt?a1400 adauntc1400 to put downa1425 overwhelmc1425 overwhelvec1450 quatc1450 slockc1485 suppressa1500 suffocate1526 quealc1530 to trample under foot1530 repress1532 quail1533 suppress1537 infringe1543 revocate1547 whelm1553 queasom1561 knetcha1564 squench1577 restinguish1579 to keep down1581 trample1583 repel1592 accable1602 crush1610 to wrestle down?1611 chokea1616 stranglea1616 stifle1621 smother1632 overpower1646 resuppress1654 strangulate1665 instranglea1670 to choke back, down, in, out1690 to nip or crush in the bud1746 spiflicate1749 squasha1777 to get under1799 burke1835 to stamp out1851 to trample down1853 quelch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 smash1865 garrotte1878 scotch1888 douse1916 to drive under1920 stomp1936 stultify1958 c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) i. metr. i. 1 The sorwful howre þat is to seyn the deth hadde almost dreynt myn heued. c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) lxvi. 303 He drenchith þe synner in Ivill thowtis. 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. C His sonne, Is drente in debte so deepe. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iv. f. 53 He..was drint into dispair. a1628 J. Preston New Covenant (1630) 198 Men much drenched in worldly business. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India III. vi. i. 45 Minds drenched with terror are easily deceived. Derivatives drenched adj. /drɛnʃt/ ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > manner of death > [adjective] > from drowning drowneda1300 drenta1350 drencheda1400 ydreynt1426 drowning1488 ydrownd1603 spent1626 the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] thorough wetOE drunk1382 drunkenc1420 uliginosec1440 dung wetc1450 drookeda1522 wet through, to the skin1526 sogginga1552 washed1557 washy1566 muck-wet1567 wringing wet1570 drenched1589 dropsy1605 ydrenched1610 sobby1611 dropsieda1616 slocken1643 uliginous1650 dabbling1661 sodded1661 sobbing1664 sobbed1693 flashy1702 saturated1728 saturate1785 livereda1796 sappy1806 laving1812 sodden1820 sopped1822 soppy1823 soaked1829 dropsical1845 soddened1845 soaking wet1847 soggya1852 sogged1860 soaking1864 sopping1866 soaken1898 astream1929 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 1886 A drenched beest. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. B4 To drie their drenched apparaile. 1660 J. Gauden Mem. Bp. Brounrigg 212 A drenched and almost drowned man. 1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 276/1 The drenched hides..are..worked over a beam. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a800v.c1000
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