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verb

Drench v. t. (past & past part. drenched; pres. part. drenching)

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. "As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink.""

To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse. "Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain; Their moisture has already drenched the plain."

noun

Drench n. A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging. "A drench of wine." "Give my roan horse a drench."

Drench n. (O. Eng. Law) A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book. (Obs.)

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"Drench" Quotes from Famous Books

... in earnest in my life. Oh, my love, my love, hasn't it dawned on you yet what you are to me? Here's the whole earth in a conspiracy to give you a chill, or run over you, or drench you to the skin, or cheat you out of your money, or let you die of overwork and underfeeding, and I haven't the mere right to look after you. Why, I don't even know if you have sense enough to put on warm things when ...

— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

... yield to an obscene and exaggerated intemperance?—would it not be to the last degree ungrateful to the great source of our enjoyment, to overload it with a weight which would oppress it with languor, or harass it with pain; and finally to drench away the effects of our impiety with some nauseous potation which revolts it, tortures it, convulses, irritates, enfeebles it, through every particle of its system? How wrong in us to give way to anger, ...

— Pelham, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... the Republican party. "Four years ago," he said, "a convention met in this city when our country was peaceful, prosperous, and united. Its delegates did not mean to destroy our government, to overwhelm us with debt, or to drench our land with blood; but they were animated by intolerance and fanaticism, and blinded by an ignorance of the spirit of our institutions, the character of our people, and the condition of our land. They ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... and thy mighty host is vain, Why with blood of friendly nations drench this red and ...

— Maha-bharata - The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse • Anonymous

... cautious squirming brought her hands to the edge of it; and with a sob of relief she grasped his wrists. The ice bent under her weight, but it did not break. The icy water, welling out over it, began to drench her ...

— The Terrible Twins • Edgar Jepson

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