Drench

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Drench \Drench\, n. [AS. drenc. See {Drench}, v. t.]
     A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured
     or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes
     purging. "A drench of wine." --Dryden.
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           Give my roan horse a drench.             --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Drench \Drench\, n. [AS. dreng warrior, soldier, akin to Icel.
     drengr.] (O. Eng. Law)
     A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book. [Obs.]
     --Burrill.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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[aum]nka, G. tr[aum]nken. See {Drink}.]
     1. 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.
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              As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to
              make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink."
                                                    --Trench.
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     2. To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to
        saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.
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              Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain;
              Their moisture has already drenched the plain.
                                                    --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  drench
       v 1: drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami
            swamped every boat in the harbor" [syn: {swamp}]
       2: force to drink
       3: permeate or impregnate; "The war drenched the country in
          blood" [syn: {imbrue}]
       4: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot
          face" [syn: {douse}, {dowse}, {soak}, {sop}, {souse}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  146 Moby Thesaurus words for "drench":
     bathe, bed, bed down, beverage, break, brew, brewing, bridle,
     brush, bumper, choke, congest, cram, crowd, curry, currycomb,
     deluge, dip, douche, douse, draft, drag, drain, dram, drenching,
     drink, drop, drouk, drown, duck, ducking, dunk, dunking, feed,
     flood, flush, fodder, gargle, gentle, glut, gluttonize, gorge,
     groom, gulp, guzzle, handle, harness, hitch, imbrue, imbruement,
     imbue, imbuement, immerse, impregnate, impregnation, infiltrate,
     infiltration, infuse, infusion, inject, injection, inundate, jam,
     jam-pack, jigger, jolt, lap, lash, lave, leach, leaching, libation,
     litter, lixiviate, lixiviation, macerate, maceration, manage, milk,
     nip, overburden, overcharge, overfeed, overfill, overlade,
     overload, overstuff, overweight, pack, peg, percolate, percolation,
     permeate, permeation, portion, potation, potion, pull, pulping,
     quaff, rinse, round, round of drinks, rub down, saddle, satiate,
     saturate, saturation, seethe, seething, shot, sip, slurp, snifter,
     snort, soak, soakage, soaking, sodden, sop, sopping, souse,
     sousing, spot, steep, steeping, stuff, submerge, suck, sup,
     supercharge, supersaturate, surcharge, surfeit, swig, swill, tame,
     teem, tend, tot, train, wash, water, waterlog, wet, yoke