drench
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drench
(drĕnch)tr.v. drenched, drench·ing, drench·es
1. To wet through and through; soak.
2. To administer a large oral dose of liquid medicine to (an animal).
3. To provide with something in great abundance; surfeit: just drenched in money.
n.
1. The act of wetting or becoming wet through and through.
2. Something that drenches: a drench of rain.
3. A large dose of liquid medicine, especially one administered to an animal by pouring down the throat.
[Middle English drenchen, to drown, from Old English drencan, to give to drink, drown; see dhreg- in Indo-European roots.]
drench′er n.
Word History: Drink and drench mean quite different things today, but in fact they share similar origins, and, historically, similar meanings. Drink comes from a prehistoric Germanic verb *drinkan, from the Germanic root *drink- meaning "drink." Another form of this root, *drank-, could be combined with a suffix *-jan that was used to form causative verbs, in this case *drankjan, "to cause to drink." The descendant of the simple verb *drinkan in Old English was drincan (virtually unchanged), while the causative verb *drankjan was affected by certain sound shifts and became Old English drencan, pronounced (drĕn′chŏn), and, in Middle and Modern English, drench. In Middle English drench came to mean "to drown," a sense now obsolete; the sense "to steep, soak in liquid" and the current modern sense "to make thoroughly wet" developed by early Modern English times. Drink and drench are not the only such pairs in English, where one verb comes from a prehistoric Germanic causative; some others include sit and set ("to cause to sit"), lie and lay ("to cause to lie"), and fall and fell ("cause to fall").
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drench
(drɛntʃ)vb (tr)
1. to make completely wet; soak
2. (Veterinary Science) to give liquid medicine to (an animal), esp by force
n
3. (Veterinary Science) the act or an instance of drenching
4. (Veterinary Science) a dose of liquid medicine given to an animal
[Old English drencan to cause to drink; related to Old High German trenken]
ˈdrencher n
ˈdrenching n, adj
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drench
(drɛntʃ)v.t.
1. to wet thoroughly; soak.
2. to saturate by immersion in a liquid; steep.
3. to cover or fill completely; bathe: sunlight drenching the trees.
4. to administer a draft of medicine to (an animal), esp. by force.
5. Archaic. to cause to drink.
n. 6. the act of drenching.
7. something that drenches.
8. a preparation for drenching or steeping.
9. a draft of medicine, esp. one administered to an animal by force.
[before 900; Middle English; Old English drencan, causative of drincan to drink; Old High German trenchen, Old Norse drekkja]
drench′er, n.
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drench
Past participle: drenched
Gerund: drenching
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Verb | 1. | drench - drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor" flood - cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes" |
2. | drench - force to drink | |
3. | drench - permeate or impregnate; "The war drenched the country in blood" impregnate, saturate - infuse or fill completely; "Impregnate the cloth with alcohol" | |
4. | drench - cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" wet - cause to become wet; "Wet your face" brine - soak in brine bate - soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins" ret - place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue |
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drench
verb
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drench
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Translations
يُبَلِّلُيَتَبَلَّل
promočit
gennembløde
kastella läpimäräksi
smočiti do kože
rennbleyta; gera holdvotan
びしょぬれにする
흠뻑 적시다
kiaurai permirkti
izmirktsalīt
dränka
ทำให้เปียก
ısla maksırılsıklam etmeksırılsıklam etmek/olmak
làm ướt sũng
drench
[drentʃ]A. VT → empapar (with de) to get drenched → empaparse
he was drenched to the skin → estaba empapado or calado hasta los huesos
he was drenched to the skin → estaba empapado or calado hasta los huesos
B. N (Vet) → poción f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
drench
[ˈdrɛntʃ] vt (= soak) → tremperto be drenched to the skin → être trempé(e) jusqu'aux os
to get drenched → se faire tremper
We got drenched → Nous nous sommes fait tremper.
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
drench
vt
(= soak) → durchnässen; I’m absolutely drenched → ich bin durch und durch nass; to be drenched in sweat → schweißgebadet sein; to be drenched in blood → vor Blut triefen; to get drenched to the skin → bis auf die Haut nass werden
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
drench
[drɛntʃ] vt → inzuppare, infradiciaredrenched to the skin → bagnato/a fradicio/a, bagnato/a fino all'osso
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
drench
(drentʃ) verb to soak completely. They went out in the rain and were drenched to the skin.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
drench
→ يُبَلِّلُ promočit gennembløde durchnässen καταβρέχω empapar, empaparse kastella läpimäräksi tremper smočiti do kože infradiciare びしょぬれにする 흠뻑 적시다 doordrenken gjennombløte zmoczyć ficar ensopado намочить dränka ทำให้เปียก sırılsıklam etmek làm ướt sũng 浸湿Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009