drench
verb
[ drɛn(t)ʃ ]
• wet thoroughly; soak.
• "I fell in the stream and was drenched"
Similar:
soak,
saturate,
wet through,
wet thoroughly,
permeate,
drown,
swamp,
submerge,
inundate,
flood,
douse,
souse,
swill down,
sluice down,
slosh,
steep,
bathe,
rinse,
wash,
• forcibly administer a drug in liquid form orally to (an animal).
• "three-times-a-year drenching for calves"
drench
noun
• a dose of medicine administered to an animal.
• "a worming drench"
Origin:
Old English drencan ‘force to drink’, drenc ‘a drink or draught’, of Germanic origin; related to German tränken (verb), Trank (noun), also to drink.
