drenched
Definition
- Adjective:
- Thoroughly wet; soaked: Completely saturated with liquid, often to the point where no more can be absorbed.
- Abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination: Extensively filled or permeated by something, typically a non-liquid like light or a quality.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- We got caught in the storm and arrived home completely drenched. (We were thoroughly soaked by the rain.)
- The garden was drenched in sunlight. (The garden was abundantly covered with sunlight.)
- Her face was drenched with sweat after the workout. (Her face was thoroughly wet with sweat.)
Advanced Usage
"drenched in": This is a common collocation meaning thoroughly permeated or filled with something, often an abstract quality or sensory experience.
- The novel is drenched in nostalgia for a lost era. (The novel is thoroughly permeated with feelings of nostalgia.)
- The room was drenched in the scent of fresh flowers. (The room was completely filled with the smell of flowers.)
Used in combination (as a combining form): Often hyphenated with a noun to describe something abundantly covered by that noun.
- The moon-drenched path led through the forest. (The path was abundantly covered in moonlight.)
- They walked through the rain-drenched streets. (The streets were thoroughly wet from the rain.)
Variants and Related Words
- Drench (verb): To wet thoroughly; to soak.
- The sudden downpour drenched all the spectators.
- Drenching (noun/adjective): The act of making something very wet, or something that causes this.
- We got a thorough drenching. (We got very wet.)
Synonyms
- Soaked: Thoroughly wet.
- Saturated: Holds as much water or moisture as can be absorbed.
- Sodden: Heavy with moisture; soaked through.
- Drowned (informal, often hyperbolic): Extremely wet.
Related Phrases
- Soaked to the skin: An idiom meaning completely wet, with clothing saturated.
- The rain soaked us to the skin in minutes.
- Wringing wet: So wet that water can be wrung out.
- His shirt was wringing wet after the race.
Adjective
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abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination
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drenched in moonlight
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moon-drenched meadows
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