drench

Meaning

Noun

1. A dose or draught of liquid medicine (especially one causing sleepiness) taken by a person; specifically, a (large) dose, or one forced or poured down the throat.
2. A dose or draught of liquid medicine administered to an animal.

Verb

1. To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.
2. To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.
3. To make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it; to saturate, to soak; also (archaic), to make (someone or something) completely wet by immersing in water or some other liquid; to soak, to steep.
4. (obsolete) To drown (someone).
5. (obsolete) To overwhelm (someone); to drown, to engulf.
6. (obsolete) To be drowned; also, to be immersed in water.

Synonyms

soak

saturate

wet

souse

steep

moisten

dip

dowse

douse

sop

imbue

flood

drip

swamp

rinse

irrigate

dip in

water

🚰

soak up

immerse

slosh

macerate

pour

heavy shower

imbrue

soak in water

line

litter

live up to

make out

man

👨

meet

occupy

overwhelm

pack

pervade

plunge

prime

ret

charge

satisfy

sink

sluice

soaking

soak through

soften

stuff

top off

turn

wad

wet all over

make wet

make full

wet through

waterlog

immerse in

wet thoroughly

make set

watersoak

immersion liquiol

sate

close

complete

damp

dampen

discharge

downpour

drenched

drenching

drown

duck

🦆

dump

dunk

farce

fill

fill in

fill out

fill up

float

fulfil

fulfill

get rid of

impregnate

inflate

infuse

infusion

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɹɛnt͡ʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English drench, drenche (“beverage, drink; cup of drink, specifically a poisoned drink; medicinal potion, specifically an emetic (?)”) [and other forms], from Old English drenċ (“drink; draft, potion; dose (of medicine, poison, etc.)”), from Proto-West Germanic *dranki, from Proto-Germanic *drankiz (“drink; potion; dose”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw, pull; to gulp; to sip”). Doublet of drink (noun).
cognates
* Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌺 (draggk), 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌺 (dragk, “beverage, drink”)
* Old Dutch *dranc, (Middle Dutch dranc, modern Dutch drank (“beverage, drink”))
* Old High German tranc, tranch (Middle High German tranc, modern German Trank (“drink; potion”))
* Old Saxon dranc