drench

Meaning

Noun

1. (also, archaic, figuratively) 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. (transitive) To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.
2. (specifically, transitive) To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.
3. (transitive) 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, transitive) To drown (someone).
5. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To overwhelm (someone); to drown, to engulf.
6. (intransitive, 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

Translations

empapar

tremper

mojar

abreuver

🚰

inzuppare

infradiciare

ıslatmak

bagnare

🛀

drenken

encharcar

μουσκεύω

saturer

einweichen

durchnässen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɹɛnt͡ʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: drench

Inherited from Old English: drenċ

Cognate with Gothic: 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌺

Cognate with Old Dutch: *dranc

Cognate with Middle Dutch: dranc

Cognate with Dutch: drank

Cognate with Old High German: tranc

Cognate with Middle High German: tranc

Cognate with German: Trank

Cognate with Old Saxon: dranc

Inherited from Middle English: drenchen

Inherited from Old English: drenċan

Cognate with Old High German: trenchen

Cognate with German: tränken

Cognate with Old Norse: drekkja

Cognate with Swedish: dränka

Cognate with Old Saxon: dręnkian

Cognate with Dutch: drenke

In summary

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