英语词汇“drench”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	drench
释义	drench I. \ˈdrench\ noun (-es) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English drenc; akin to Old High German trank drink, Gothic drank; derivative from the root of Old English drincan to drink — more at drink 1. a. : drink, draft b. : a poisonous or medicinal drink; specifically : a large dose of medicine mixed with liquid and put down the throat of an animal 2. a. : something that drenches < this alternance of sun and drench proliferates plant and beast — Waldo Frank > b. : a quantity sufficient to drench or saturate < the heather of the bogs, the hill turf, and the gravel of the road had lost their color under a drench of dew — John Buchan > < few men have subjected all their borrowings to so strong a drench of personability — H.S.Canby > c. : a solution usually of fermenting bran used for drenching hides II. verb (-ed/-ing/-es) Etymology: Middle English drenchen to cause to drink, drown, from Old English drencan; akin to Old High German trenken to cause to drink, Old Norse drekkja to drown, Gothic drankjan to cause to drink; causative from the root of Old English drincan to drink *transitive verb* 1. a. archaic : to force to drink b. : to administer a drench to (an animal) 2. obsolete a. : to submerge in water b. : drown 3. : to steep or saturate by immersion in liquid < desserts drenched in brandy — Dwight Macdonald > specifically : to soak (hides) in a weak acid bath to remove lime left by the liming process 4. : to soak or cover thoroughly with liquid that falls or is precipitated < within five minutes the daily downpour of tropical rain would drench the jungle — William Beebe > < the sweat poured down his body until he was drenched — Pearl Buck > 5. : to fill completely as if by soaking or precipitation : saturate, steep, pervade < ominous iridescences drench every paragraph — Frederic Morton > < familiar with the Hebrides and drenched in Highland lore — J.W.Krutch > < klieg lights snapped on, drenching rostrum and orchestra floor with hot light — F.L.Allen > < sun-drenched Italy — G.C.Sellery > *intransitive verb* : to fall heavily and cause saturation < driving snow and sleet, which drenched cruelly down on little townships that already … had had too much of water — Mollie Panter-Downes >
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