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drench
(dr/E/n/tS/ )

noun (n)

  • A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.(noun)
    source: webster1913
  • A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.(noun)
    source: webster1913

verb (v)

  • drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged(verb.weather)
    Synonym:
    swamp
    source: wordnet30
  • force to drink(verb.consumption)
    source: wordnet30
  • permeate or impregnate(verb.change)
    Example:
    The war drenched the country in blood.
    Synonym:
    imbrue
    source: wordnet30
  • cover with liquid; pour liquid onto(verb.change)
    Synonym:
    douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse
    source: wordnet30
  • 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.(verb)
    source: webster1913
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