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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
   draumnka, g. traumnken. 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
see also:
drenched drenching drink 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
drenched
     adj 1: wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door
            drenched or soaked by the rain"; "a shirt saturated
            with perspiration"; "his shoes were sopping or
            soaking"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy
            clothes" syn: saturated, soaked, soaking, sodden,
             sopping, soppy
     2: abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in
        combination; "drenched in moonlight"; "moon-drenched
        meadows" syn: drenched in
see also:
saturated soaked soaking sodden sopping soppy 
drenched in 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
114 moby thesaurus words for "drenched":
   addled, awash, bathed, beery, bemused, besotted, blind drunk,
   bloated, bursting, choked, congested, crammed, crapulent,
   crapulous, crowded, deluged, dipped, distended, dizzy, dribbling,
   dripping, dripping wet, drowned, drunk, drunken, engulfed,
   far-gone, filled to overflowing, flooded, flustered, fou, full,
   gay, giddy, glorious, glutted, gorged, happy, hyperemic, immersed,
   in liquor, in spate, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated,
   inundated, jam-packed, jammed, jolly, macerated, maudlin, mellow,
   merry, muddled, nappy, oozing, overblown, overburdened,
   overcharged, overfed, overflowed, overflowing, overfraught,
   overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstocked,
   overstuffed, oversupplied, overweighted, packed, permeated,
   plethoric, ready to burst, reeling, running over, satiated,
   saturated, seeping, shikker, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky,
   sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, sotted, soused,
   steeped, stuffed, stuffed up, submerged, submersed, supercharged,
   supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swamped, swollen, tiddly,
   tipsy, under the influence, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping,
   weltering, wet, whelmed, wringing wet





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