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drench
drench D0387200 (drĕnch)tr.v. drenched, drench·ing, drench·es 1. To wet through and through; soak.2. To administer a large oral dose of liquid medicine to (an animal).3. To provide with something in great abundance; surfeit: just drenched in money.n.1. The act of wetting or becoming wet through and through.2. Something that drenches: a drench of rain.3. A large dose of liquid medicine, especially one administered to an animal by pouring down the throat.
[Middle English drenchen, to drown, from Old English drencan, to give to drink, drown; see dhreg- in Indo-European roots.]
drench′er n.Word History: Drink and drench mean quite different things today, but in fact they share similar origins, and, historically, similar meanings. Drink comes from a prehistoric Germanic verb *drinkan, from the Germanic root *drink- meaning "drink." Another form of this root, *drank-, could be combined with a suffix *-jan that was used to form causative verbs, in this case *drankjan, "to cause to drink." The descendant of the simple verb *drinkan in Old English was drincan (virtually unchanged), while the causative verb *drankjan was affected by certain sound shifts and became Old English drencan, pronounced (drĕn′chŏn), and, in Middle and Modern English, drench. In Middle English drench came to mean "to drown," a sense now obsolete; the sense "to steep, soak in liquid" and the current modern sense "to make thoroughly wet" developed by early Modern English times. Drink and drench are not the only such pairs in English, where one verb comes from a prehistoric Germanic causative; some others include sit and set ("to cause to sit"), lie and lay ("to cause to lie"), and fall and fell ("cause to fall").drench (drɛntʃ) vb (tr) 1. to make completely wet; soak2. (Veterinary Science) to give liquid medicine to (an animal), esp by forcen3. (Veterinary Science) the act or an instance of drenching4. (Veterinary Science) a dose of liquid medicine given to an animal[Old English drencan to cause to drink; related to Old High German trenken] ˈdrencher n ˈdrenching n, adjdrench (drɛntʃ)
v.t. 1. to wet thoroughly; soak. 2. to saturate by immersion in a liquid; steep. 3. to cover or fill completely; bathe: sunlight drenching the trees. 4. to administer a draft of medicine to (an animal), esp. by force. 5. Archaic. to cause to drink. n. 6. the act of drenching. 7. something that drenches. 8. a preparation for drenching or steeping. 9. a draft of medicine, esp. one administered to an animal by force. [before 900; Middle English; Old English drencan, causative of drincan to drink; Old High German trenchen, Old Norse drekkja] drench′er, n. drench
Past participle: drenched
Gerund: drenching
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| I drench | | you drench | | he/she/it drenches | | we drench | | you drench | | they drench |
| Preterite |
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| I drenched | | you drenched | | he/she/it drenched | | we drenched | | you drenched | | they drenched |
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| I am drenching | | you are drenching | | he/she/it is drenching | | we are drenching | | you are drenching | | they are drenching |
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| I have drenched | | you have drenched | | he/she/it has drenched | | we have drenched | | you have drenched | | they have drenched |
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| I was drenching | | you were drenching | | he/she/it was drenching | | we were drenching | | you were drenching | | they were drenching |
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| I had drenched | | you had drenched | | he/she/it had drenched | | we had drenched | | you had drenched | | they had drenched |
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| I will drench | | you will drench | | he/she/it will drench | | we will drench | | you will drench | | they will drench |
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| I will have drenched | | you will have drenched | | he/she/it will have drenched | | we will have drenched | | you will have drenched | | they will have drenched |
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| I will be drenching | | you will be drenching | | he/she/it will be drenching | | we will be drenching | | you will be drenching | | they will be drenching |
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| I have been drenching | | you have been drenching | | he/she/it has been drenching | | we have been drenching | | you have been drenching | | they have been drenching |
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| I will have been drenching | | you will have been drenching | | he/she/it will have been drenching | | we will have been drenching | | you will have been drenching | | they will have been drenching |
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| I had been drenching | | you had been drenching | | he/she/it had been drenching | | we had been drenching | | you had been drenching | | they had been drenching |
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| I would drench | | you would drench | | he/she/it would drench | | we would drench | | you would drench | | they would drench |
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| I would have drenched | | you would have drenched | | he/she/it would have drenched | | we would have drenched | | you would have drenched | | they would have drenched |
Thesaurus| Verb | 1. | drench - drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor"swampflood - cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes" | | 2. | drench - force to drinkanimal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movementcater, ply, provide, supply - give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" | | 3. | drench - permeate or impregnate; "The war drenched the country in blood"imbrueimpregnate, saturate - infuse or fill completely; "Impregnate the cloth with alcohol" | | 4. | drench - cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"souse, soak, sop, dowse, dousewet - cause to become wet; "Wet your face"brine - soak in brinebedraggle, draggle - make wet and dirty, as from rainbate - soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins"ret - place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissuesluice, flush - irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth" |
drenchverb1. soak, flood, wet, duck, drown, steep, swamp, saturate, inundate, souse, imbrue They turned fire hoses on the people and drenched them.drenchverbTo make thoroughly wet:douse, saturate, soak, sodden, sop, souse, wet.Translationsdrench (drentʃ) verb to soak completely. They went out in the rain and were drenched to the skin. 使濕透 使浸透drench
drenched to the skinTo be completely soaked with water—usually rain—through one's clothes. Come in out of that rain! Oh, you're drenched to the skin, you'll catch cold if you aren't careful!See also: drench, skindrench inTo cover or saturate with something (typically a liquid). A noun or pronoun can be used between "drench" and "in." You can always count on Bill to drench his pancakes in syrup.See also: drenchdrench someone or something in something and drench someone or something with somethingto soak someone or something in something. A sudden summer shower drenched them in sheets of rain. My raincoat was drenched with droplets from the foggy night air.See also: drenchdrench
drench1. the act or an instance of drenching 2. a dose of liquid medicine given to an animal drench
drench (drĕnch)tr.v. drenched, drenching, drenches 1. To wet through and through; soak.2. To administer a large oral dose of liquid medicine to (an animal).n.1. The act of wetting or becoming wet through and through.2. A large dose of liquid medicine, especially one administered to an animal by pouring down the throat.
drench′er n.drenchA dose of medicine that is administered to an animal by pouring it into its mouth.drench
Synonyms for drenchverb soakSynonyms- soak
- flood
- wet
- duck
- drown
- steep
- swamp
- saturate
- inundate
- souse
- imbrue
Synonyms for drenchverb to make thoroughly wetSynonyms- douse
- saturate
- soak
- sodden
- sop
- souse
- wet
Synonyms for drenchverb drench or submerge or be drenched or submergedSynonymsRelated Wordsverb force to drinkRelated Words- animal
- animate being
- beast
- creature
- fauna
- brute
- cater
- ply
- provide
- supply
verb permeate or impregnateSynonymsRelated Wordsverb cover with liquidSynonymsRelated Words- wet
- brine
- bedraggle
- draggle
- bate
- ret
- sluice
- flush
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