drench

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To wet through and through; soak.
2. v. To administer a large oral dose of liquid medicine to (an animal).
3. v. To provide with something in great abundance; surfeit: just drenched in money.
4. n. The act of wetting or becoming wet through and through.
5. n. Something that drenches: a drench of rain.
6. n. A large dose of liquid medicine, especially one administered to an animal by pouring down the throat.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To wet thoroughly; soak; steep; fill or cover with water or other liquid: as, garments drenched with rain or in the sea; swords drenched in blood; the flood has drenched the earth.
2. To gorge or satiate with a fluid: as, he drenched himself with liquor.
3. Specifically, to administer liquid physic to abundantly, especially in a forcible way.
4. . To drown.
5. To subject (hides) to the effect of soaking and stirring in a solution of animal excrements or an alkaline solution. Synonyms To steep, souse, deluge (with).
6. To drown.
7. n. A drink; a draught.
8. n. A large draught of fluid; an inordinate drink.
9. n. Hence A draught of physic; specifically, a dose of medicine for a beast, as a horse.
10. n. That with or in which something is drenched; a provision or preparation for drenching or steeping.
11. n. A less correct form of dreng.

Wiktionary

1. n. A draught administered to an animal.
2. v. To soak, to make very wet.
3. n. obsolete, UK A military vassal, mentioned in the Domesday Book.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. 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.
2. v. To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.
3. n. A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
4. n. (O. Eng. Law), obsolete A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. permeate or impregnate
2. v. drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
3. v. force to drink
4. v. cover with liquid; pour liquid onto