drench

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /dɹɛnt͡ʃ/ (Southern US, African-American Vernacular, Cork, pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /dɹɪ̟nt͡ʃ/ Rhymes: -ɛntʃ Hyphenation: drench === Etymology 1 === From Middle English drench, drenche (“beverage, drink; cup of drink, specifically a poisoned drink; medicinal potion, specifically an emetic (?)”) [and other forms], from Old English drenċ (“drink; draft, potion; dose (of medicine, poison, etc.)”), from Proto-West Germanic *dranki, from Proto-Germanic *drankiz (“drink; potion; dose”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw, pull; to gulp; to sip”). Doublet of drink (noun). ==== Noun ==== drench (plural drenches) (archaic, also figurative) A dose or draught of liquid medicine (especially one causing sleepiness) taken by a person; specifically, a (large) dose, or one forced or poured down the throat. (veterinary medicine) A dose or draught of liquid medicine administered to an animal. ===== Derived terms ===== horse-drench ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === The verb is derived from Middle English drenchen, drench (“to drown; to flood, inundate; to consume (drink or food); to give (someone) a drink; to poison (someone) with a drink; to immerse, soak, drench; to descend, fall, sink; to penetrate, permeate; (figurative) to engulf, overwhelm”) [and other forms], from Old English drenċan (“to give (someone) a drink; to immerse, soak, drench”), from Proto-West Germanic *drankijan, from Proto-Germanic *drankijaną (“to cause (someone) to drink”), the causative of *drinkaną (“to drink”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw, pull; to gulp; to sip”). Doublet of drink (verb). The noun is derived from the verb (verb sense 1.2). ==== Verb ==== drench (third-person singular simple present drenches, present participle drenching, simple past and past participle drenched) (transitive) To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink. Coordinate term: feed (specifically, veterinary medicine) To administer a dose or draught of liquid medicine to (an animal), often by force. To make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it; to saturate, to soak; also (archaic), to make (someone or something) completely wet by immersing in water or some other liquid; to soak, to steep. Synonyms: (archaic) bedrench, souse (obsolete) To drown (someone). Synonyms: (obsolete) endrench, (obsolete) indrench (obsolete, figurative) To overwhelm (someone); to drown, to engulf. (intransitive, obsolete) To be drowned; also, to be immersed in water. ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== endrench, indrench (obsolete) sun-drenched ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== drench (plural drenches) An act of making someone or something completely wet; a soak or soaking, a wetting. An amount of water or some other liquid that will make someone or something completely wet. ===== Translations ===== === References === === Further reading === drench (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “drench”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == Old English == === Noun === drench m alternative form of dreng === Further reading === Alexander M[ansfield] Burrill (1850–1851), “DRENCH”, in A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: […], volume (please specify |part= or |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: John S. Voorhies, […], →OCLC.