drench
pronunciation
How to pronounce drench in British English:
UK [drentʃ]
How to pronounce drench in American English:
US [drɛntʃ]
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- Verb:
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
- force to drink
- permeate or impregnate
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
Word Origin
- drench
- drench: [OE] Originally, drench meant simply ‘cause to drink’. It comes ultimately from the prehistoric Germanic verb *drangkjan, which was a causative variant of *drengkan (source of English drink) – that is to say, it denoted ‘causing someone to do the action of the verb drink’. That particular sense now survives only as a technical usage in veterinary medicine, but already by the Middle English period it had moved on metaphorically to ‘drown’ (now obsolete, and succeeded by the related drown) and ‘soak thoroughly’.=> drink, drown
- drench (v.)
- c. 1200, "to submerge, drown," from Old English drencan "give drink to, ply with drink, make drunk; soak, saturate; submerge, drown," causative of drincan "to drink" (see drink), from Proto-Germanic *drankijan (cognates: Old Norse drekkja, Swedish dränka, Dutch drenken, German tränken, Gothic dragkjan "to give to drink"). Sense of "to wet thoroughly by throwing liquid over" is from c. 1550. Related: Drenched; drenching.
Antonym
Example
- 1. When the rain on the face , drench .
- 2. Every three weeks I had to dip my head over the bath and drench my hair with the dye .
- 3. Workshop interior has fire control gush to drench system .
- 4. You go outside and let the rain drench you .
- 5. Workshop interior has whole fire control in season to drench system .