'Drenching' definitions:
Definition of 'drenching'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Drenching'
From: GCIDE
- Drench \Drench\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drenched; p. pr. & vb. n. Drenching.] [AS. drencan to give to drink, to drench, the causal of drincan to drink; akin to D. drenken, Sw. dr[aum]nka, G. tr[aum]nken. See Drink.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink." --Trench. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse. [1913 Webster]
- Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain; Their moisture has already drenched the plain. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'drenching'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- brewing,
- dampening,
- drench,
- ducking,
- dunking,
- humectant,
- imbruement,
- imbuement,
- impregnation,
- infiltration,
- infusion,
- injection,
- irrigational,
- irriguous,
- leaching,
- lixiviation,
- maceration,
- moistening,
- percolation,
- permeation,
- pulping,
- saturation,
- seething,
- soak,
- soakage,
- soaking,
- sopping,
- souse,
- sousing,
- steeping,
- watering,
- wetting