Drench

Quick meaning: Drench is a noun meaning (veterinary medicine) A dose or draught of liquid medicine administered to an animal.

Meaning

(veterinary medicine) A dose or draught of liquid medicine administered to an animal.

More Meanings

1. To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.
2. To drown (someone).
3. To overwhelm (someone); to drown, to engulf.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To be drowned; also, to be immersed in water.
5. An act of making someone or something completely wet; a soak or soaking, a wetting.
6. To make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it; to saturate, to soak; also (archaic), to make (someone or something) completely wet by immersing in water or some other liquid; to soak, to steep.
7. (archaic, also figurative) A dose or draught of liquid medicine (especially one causing sleepiness) taken by a person; specifically, a (large) dose, or one forced or poured down the throat.

Example Sentences

Guido heard all, swore the befitting oaths, / Shook off the relics of his poison-drench, / Got horse, was fairly started in pursuit […]

Corpulence is a beauty: girls are fattened to a vast bulk by drenches of curds and cream thickened with flour, and are duly disciplined when they refuse.

O my ſvveet Harry ſaies ſhe! hovv manie haſt thou kild to day? Giue my roane horſe a drench (ſayes hee) and aunſvveres ſome foureteene, an houre after: a trifle, a trifle.

Let ſuch bethink them, if the ſleepy drench / Of that forgetful Lake benumme not ſtill, / That in our proper motion we aſcend / Up to our native ſeat: deſcent and fall / To us is adverſe.

Word Forms

• drenches
• drenching
• drenched
• drencht
• drenchest
• drenchedst
• drencheth

Synonyms for drench

Depending on context, synonyms include bedrench, indrench, sop, souse, swamp, dowse.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse, swamp.

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