drenched

Thân thiện

The child got completely drenched by the sudden summer rain.

Definition

1. 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.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination
   • drenched in moonlight
   • moon-drenched meadows

Từ đồng nghĩa

• drenched in