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drench

drench · drenches · drenched · drenching

промачивать, пропитывать, пропитать

durchnässen

To cause to drink; to provide with a drinkTo cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.

/dɹɛnt͡ʃ/

» After a while, dressing in the recommended long pants and long sleeved-shirt during a summer hike can really drench your clothes.

Meaning

6 senses

(transitive)To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.
force to drink
To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.
(specifically, transitive)To administer a dose or draught of liquid medicine to (an animal), often by force.
(transitive)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.
durchnässen
промачиватьpromačivatʹ, пропи́тыватьpropítyvatʹ, пропита́тьpropitátʹ
(obsolete, transitive)To drown (someone).
(figuratively, obsolete, transitive)To overwhelm (someone); to drown, to engulf.
(intransitive, obsolete)To be drowned; also, to be immersed in water.

Examples

1 sentences

After a while, dressing in the recommended long pants and long sleeved-shirt during a summer hike can really drench your clothes.
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Translations

6 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak:

Origin

The verb is derived from Middle English drenchen, drench (“to drown; to flood, inundate; t

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).

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