Drench

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  • transitive verb. To wet through and through; soak.
  • transitive verb. To administer a large oral dose of liquid medicine to (an animal).
  • transitive verb. To provide with something in great abundance; surfeit.
  • noun. The act of wetting or becoming wet through and through.
  • noun. Something that drenches.
  • noun. A large dose of liquid medicine, especially one administered to an animal by pouring down the throat.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A drink; a draught.
  • noun. A large draught of fluid; an inordinate drink.
  • noun. Hence A draught of physic; specifically, a dose of medicine for a beast, as a horse.
  • noun. That with or in which something is drenched; a provision or preparation for drenching or steeping.
  • 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.
  • To gorge or satiate with a fluid: as, he drenched himself with liquor.
  • Specifically, to administer liquid physic to abundantly, especially in a forcible way.
  • . To drown.
  • To subject (hides) to the effect of soaking and stirring in a solution of animal excrements or an alkaline solution.
  • To drown.
  • noun. A less correct form of dreng.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • transitive verb. To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.
  • noun. A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A draught administered to an animal.
  • verb. To soak, to make very wet.
  • noun. A military vassal, mentioned in the Domesday Book.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. permeate or impregnate
  • verb. drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
  • verb. force to drink
  • verb. cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
  • Word Usage
    "Sustainable Control of Parasites group (SCOPs) is to use a white (BZ) drench, which is effective against nematodirus and suitable for young lambs, says Ms Philips."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cater  flood  impregnate  ply  provide  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bench  French  Hench  bench  clench  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    arrowy  briny  clammy  cleanse  downpour  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bathe  bed  bed down  beverage  break  
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