drenchverb [ T often passive ]
uk/drentʃ/us/drentʃ/to make someone or something extremely wet:
A sudden thunderstorm had drenched us to the skin.
The athletes were drenched in/with sweat.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Wet weather & wetness
- bedraggled
- clammy
- deluge
- douse
- dreich
- dripping
- drown
- look like a drowned rat idiom
- misty
- mizzle
- moist
- moisten
- rainy
- rehydration
- saturated
- soaking
- sodden
- soggy
- sun shower
- sweat
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