drench

/drentʃ/
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drench

A gardener uses a hose to drench the thirsty flower beds.

Definition
  1. Verb:
    • To make something or someone completely wet by pouring or immersing in liquid: To saturate thoroughly with a liquid, often implying a forceful or thorough soaking.
    • To force a liquid, especially medicine, down the throat of an animal: To administer a liquid, typically a dose of medicine, to an animal.
    • (Figurative) To fill or permeate something completely: To soak or saturate an abstract thing, such as an atmosphere or a place, with a particular quality.
Usage Examples
  • Verb:
    • The sudden storm drenched all the picnic-goers. (The rain made the people completely wet.)
    • The farmer had to drench the sick sheep with a special medicine. (The farmer forced the sheep to swallow the medicine.)
    • The novel is drenched in a sense of melancholy. (The book is thoroughly permeated with sadness.)
Advanced Usage
  • "to be drenched to the skin": to be so wet that one's clothes are soaked through to the skin.
    • We were drenched to the skin before we could find shelter.
  • "to drench oneself in something": (figurative) to immerse oneself completely in an experience or feeling.
    • She drenched herself in the local culture during her travels.
Variants and Related Words
  • Drenching (noun/adjective): The act of making something very wet, or something that causes this.
    • We got caught in a drenching downpour.
  • Drencher (noun): (Informal) A very heavy fall of rain.
    • That was a real drencher of a storm.
Synonyms
  • Soak: To make something very wet, often by leaving it in liquid.
  • Saturate: To cause something to become thoroughly soaked or filled.
  • Souse: To plunge something into liquid or pour liquid over it.
  • Douse/Dowse: To pour a liquid over something; to extinguish with liquid.
Related Phrasal Verbs

(Note: "drench" is not commonly used with particles to form standard phrasal verbs. The action is typically expressed with prepositions like "in" or "with.")

Related Idioms
  • "like a drowned rat": looking extremely wet and bedraggled, similar to being drenched.
    • He came in from the rain looking like a drowned rat.
drench

A gardener uses a hose to drench the thirsty flower beds.

Verb
  1. cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
    • souse water on his hot face
  2. permeate or impregnate
    • The war drenched the country in blood
  3. force to drink
  4. drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
    • The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor

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