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  • verb transitive, obsolete To make drunk; intoxicate.
  • verb transitive, intransitive, obsolete To drown.

Etymologies

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From Middle English fordrenchen, from Old English fordrencan ("to make drunk, intoxicate"), equivalent to for- +‎ drench. Cognate with Middle Low German vordrenken.

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