3 definitions found 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. [1913 Webster] As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink." --Trench. [1913 Webster] 2. To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse. [1913 Webster] Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain; Their moisture has already drenched the plain. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: drenching n : the act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a good drenching" [syn: {soaking}, {souse}, {sousing}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 32 Moby Thesaurus words for "drenching": brewing, dampening, drench, ducking, dunking, humectant, imbruement, imbuement, impregnation, infiltration, infusion, injection, irrigational, irriguous, leaching, lixiviation, maceration, moistening, percolation, permeation, pulping, saturation, seething, soak, soakage, soaking, sopping, souse, sousing, steeping, watering, wetting
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