drenched
from
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.
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.
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2. To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to
saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.
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Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain;
Their moisture has already drenched the plain.
--Dryden.
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from
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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