| 单词 | drench |
| 释义 | drench (once / 1118 pages) v To drench something is to get it thoroughly wet. You might drench your sister with the garden hose to pay her back for squirting you with her water pistol. When you're sailing a small boat on a stormy day, waves might drench you, and a torrential rain storm can also drench you, if you leave your umbrella at home. If your dog is crazy about swimming, he might drench himself often by plunging into whatever body of water you're near. Drench comes from the Old English drencan, which means both "submerge or drown" and "give drink to or make drunk." WORD FAMILYdrench: drenched, drenches, drenching+/drenching: drenchings USAGE EXAMPLESDrivers slowed just as a fast-moving thunderstorm unleashed sheets of rain that drenched the road and reduced visibility to a few dozen yards. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) The Christmas storm drenched the usually dry region, causing flash floods and turning the soil into mud. BBC(Dec 27, 2016) Even as Obama spoke, an 80 percent surge in U.S. visitors was drenching state-run and private businesses with hundreds of millions of desperately needed dollars. Seattle Times(Dec 25, 2016) 1v cover with liquid; pour liquid onto Syn|Hypo|Hyper douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse brine soak in brine bedraggle, dragglemake wet and dirty, as from rain batesoak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments retplace (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue flush, sluiceirrigate with water from a sluice wet cause to become wet 2v drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged Syn|Hyper swamp flood cover with liquid, usually water 3v permeate or impregnate The war drenched the country in blood Syn|Hyper imbrue impregnate, saturate infuse or fill completely 4v force to drink Hyper cater, ply, provide, supply give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance |
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