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What (who) is drench - definition
drench
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Drench (disambiguation)
(drenches, drenching, drenched)
To drench something or someone means to make them completely wet.
They turned fire hoses on the people and drenched them...
They were getting drenched by icy water...
We were completely drenched and cold...
= soak
VERB: V n, get V-ed, V-ed
• -drenched
...the rain-drenched streets of the capital.
COMB in ADJ
drench
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Drench (disambiguation)
v. a.
1.
Saturate, soak, steep, imbrue, wet thoroughly, wet through, wet through and through.
2.
Physic, purge.
drench
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Drench (disambiguation)
¦ verb
1. wet thoroughly; soak.
[often as adjective drenched] cover liberally with something: a sun-drenched clearing.
2. forcibly administer a liquid medicine to (an animal).
¦ noun a dose of medicine administered to an animal.
?archaic a draught of medicine or poison.
Origin
OE drencan 'force to drink', drenc 'a drink or draught', of Gmc origin; related to drink.
Examples of use of drench
1. Hayes added that if the summer monsoons don‘t adequately drench the area, it could mean trouble.
2. Pervez Musharraf to swing into action to drench the fires raging in Pakistan.
3. Julio caused little major damage but forecasters said it could drench the U.S.
4. It threatened to drench Jamaica and the Cayman Islands with up to 12 inches of rain.
5. Moussaoui then proceeded to drench him as well, and refused to speak to him, Mr Amador said.