To cover or flood with a liquid. Chiefly hyperbolical. To overspread with fluid; to drench, inundate. Also, to saturate (a powder magazine) with…

colloquial. To make a display, ‘cut a dash’; dash off, out, to burst off, come out, with a dash.

To cover or fill with water; to irrigate (grass land); to deluge (a burning house, mine, etc.) with water. Also of rain, etc.: To fill (a river) to…