drenching

3 definitions found

drenching - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Drench \Drench\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drenched; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Drenching.] [AS. drencan to give to drink, to drench, the
     causal of drincan to drink; akin to D. drenken, Sw.
     dr[aum]nka, G. tr[aum]nken. See Drink.]
     1. To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a
        potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge
        violently by physic.
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              As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to
              make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink."
                                                    --Trench.
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     2. To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to
        saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.
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              Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain;
              Their moisture has already drenched the plain.
                                                    --Dryden.
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drenching - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  drenching
      n 1: the act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a
           good drenching" [syn: drenching, soaking, souse,
           sousing]

drenching - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "drenching":
     brewing, dampening, drench, ducking, dunking, humectant,
     imbruement, imbuement, impregnation, infiltration, infusion,
     injection, irrigational, irriguous, leaching, lixiviation,
     maceration, moistening, percolation, permeation, pulping,
     saturation, seething, soak, soakage, soaking, sopping, souse,
     sousing, steeping, watering, wetting