drench

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  1. transitive verb To wet through and through; soak.
  2. transitive verb To administer a large oral dose of liquid medicine to (an animal).
  3. transitive verb To provide with something in great abundance; surfeit: just drenched in money.
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  • At each we found representative women patiently enduring the drench- ing rain while they tried to persuade men to vote for us. —  The Story of a Pioneer
  • It's enough to get us heading straight for the drench. —  Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines
  • A drench is starting to look a pretty good alternative for a young horse to a bad-ass bunch of ascarids. —  Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines
  • He said feedlot cattle put on about 20 pounds more when a Safe Guard drench was used in conjunction with ivermec pour-on.
  • The song is 'drench' in sex, and it's the first time I've ever heard a pop song with the words video for the album is the song "Red State / Blue State". —  W♥M
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torrential ·  sleety ·  arrowy ·  drizzly ·  downpour ·  soak ·  briny ·  gusty ·  clammy ·  cleanse ·  isolate

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drench:   drenching
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English drenchen, to drown, from Old English drencan, to give to drink, drown; see dhreg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English drenchen (preterit drenched and dreint, past participle drenched and dreint), drench, drown, from Anglo-Saxon drencan, give to drink, also drown (= OFries. drenka, drinka = Dutch drenken = Low German dränken, Old High German trenchan, Middle High German trenken, German tränken = Icelandic drekkja = Swedish dränka), causative of drincan, drink: see drink. Cf. drown, of the same ult. origin.
  2. from Middle English drench, drenke, drœnc, a drink, from Anglo-Saxon drenc, also drinc = Old Saxon OFries. D. and Low German drank = Old High German tranch, German trank, a drink, from Anglo-Saxon drincan, etc. (preterit dranc), drink: see drink, v., and cf. drink, n., and drench, v. In senses 2 and 3 rather from the verb drench.
 

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