drenching in English

verb

1

wet thoroughly; soak.

I fell in the stream and got drenched

synonyms: soak, saturate, wet through, permeate, douse, souse, drown, swamp, inundate, flood, steep, bathe

2

forcibly administer a drug in liquid form orally to (an animal).

‘It was a time when in-calf cows were drenched with a certain product to prevent milk fever,’ he says.

noun

sousing, soaking, souse

verb

soak, swamp, imbrue
soak, saturate, wet through, permeate, douse, souse, drown, swamp, inundate, flood, steep, bathe
swamp
soak, douse, dowse, souse, sop
imbrue

Use "drenching" in a sentence

1. Rains pour down daily, drenching the forests and fueling their elaborate cycle of life.

2. We recommend Conquer in particular for drenching fire ant mounds and using is for leaf cutter ants

3. The recipe used reflects the tradition of fisherman grilling fresh-caught Branzino and drenching the fillets with olive oil.

4. Battle of Chancellorsville The locomotive ground to a halt at a little depot amidst a drenching downpour

5. "Such torrid splendor, drenching a land of Austerest simplicity, decomposes the mind into corresponding states of primal contentment and resilience."--Norman Douglas, Old Calabria, 1915 The Normans built so many towers in South Italy that we have a name for it: "encastellation."