drench (redirected from drenches)

drench  (drnch)

tr.v. drenched, drench·ing, drench·es

1. To wet through and through; soak.

2. To administer a large oral dose of liquid medicine to (an animal).

3. To provide with something in great abundance; surfeit: just drenched in money.

n.

1. The act of wetting or becoming wet through and through.

2. Something that drenches: a drench of rain.

3. A large dose of liquid medicine, especially one administered to an animal by pouring down the throat.

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[Middle English drenchen, to drown, from Old English drencan, to give to drink, drown; see dhreg- in Indo-European roots.]

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drencher n.

Word History: Drink and drench mean quite different things today, but in fact they share similar origins, and, historically, similar meanings. Drink comes from a prehistoric Germanic verb *drinkan, from the Germanic root *drink- meaning "drink." Another form of this root, *drank-, could be combined with a suffix *-jan that was used to form causative verbs, in this case *drankjan, "to cause to drink." The descendant of the simple verb *drinkan in Old English was drincan (virtually unchanged), while the causative verb *drankjan was affected by certain sound shifts and became Old English drencan, pronounced (drnchn), and, in Middle and Modern English, drench. In Middle English drench came to mean "to drown," a sense now obsolete; the sense "to steep, soak in liquid" and the current modern sense "to make thoroughly wet" developed by early Modern English times. Drink and drench are not the only such pairs in English, where one verb comes from a prehistoric Germanic causative; some others include sit and set ("to cause to sit"), lie and lay ("to cause to lie"), and fall and fell ("cause to fall").

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drench

Verb

1. to make completely wet

2. to give medicine to (an animal) [Old English drencan to cause to drink]

drenching nadj

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	drench - drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor" swamp flood - cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
	2.	drench - force to drink animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement cater, ply, provide, supply - give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"
	3.	drench - permeate or impregnate; "The war drenched the country in blood" imbrue impregnate, saturate - infuse or fill completely; "Impregnate the cloth with alcohol"
	4.	drench - cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" souse, soak, sop, dowse, douse wet - cause to become wet; "Wet your face" brine - soak in brine bedraggle, draggle - make wet and dirty, as from rain bate - soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins" ret - place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue sluice, flush - irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"

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drench

verb soak, flood, wet, duck, drown, steep, swamp, saturate, inundate, souse, imbrue

Translations

drench [drɛntʃ] vt → empapar;

drenched to the skin → calado hasta los huesos

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drench [drɛntʃ] vt → tremper;

drenched to the skin → trempé(e) jusqu'aux os

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drench [drɛntʃ] vt → durchnässen;

drenched to the skin → nass bis auf die Haut

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drench [drɛntʃ] vt → inzuppare;

drenched to the skin → bagnato(a) fino all'osso, bagnato(a) fradicio(a)

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drench

v drench [drentʃ]

to soak completely They went out in the rain and were drenched to the skin. deurweek يَتَبَلَّل накисвам promočit gennembløde durchnässen μουσκεύω εντελώς empapar läbimärjaks tegema کاملاً خیس کردن kastella läpimäräksi tremper לְהָרטִיב לְגָמרֵי भिगोना, गीला करना prokisao, namočen átáztat (és eredménye:) csuromvíz basah kuyup rennbleyta; gera holdvotan inzuppare びしょぬれにする 흠뻑 젖게 하다 kiaurai permirkti izmirkt; salīt basah doordrenken gjennombløte zmoczyć, zmoknąć ensopar a uda промачивать (насквозь) premočiť zmočiti nakvasiti genomdränka, göra genomvåt ทำให้เปียกโชก ısla(t)mak, sırılsıklam etmek/olmak 使浸透 промочувати наскрізь پوری طرح بھگو دینا làm ướt sũng 使浸透