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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drench \Drench\, noun [AS. drenc. See {Drench}, verb (used with an object)] A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging. ''A drench of wine.'' --Dryden.
Give my roan horse a drench. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drench \Drench\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Drenched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drenching}.] [AS. drencan to give to drink, to drench, the causal of drincan to drink; akin to D. drenken, Sw. dr["a]nka, G. tr["a]nken. See {Drink}.]
1. To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.
As ''to fell,'' is ''to make to fall,'' and ''to lay,'' to make to lie.'' so ''to drench,'' is ''to make to drink.'' --Trench.
2. To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.
Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain; Their moisture has already drenched the plain. --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drench \Drench\, noun [AS. dreng warrior, soldier, akin to Icel. drengr.] (O. Eng. Law) A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book. [Obs.] --Burrill.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
drench
verb
1: drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor" [syn: {swamp}]
2: force to drink
3: permeate or impregnate; "The war drenched the country in blood" [syn: {imbrue}]
4: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" [syn: {douse}, {dowse}, {soak}, {sop}, {souse}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "drench": bathe, bed, bed down, beverage, break, brew, brewing, bridle, brush, bumper, choke, congest, cram, crowd, curry, currycomb, deluge, dip, douche, douse, draft, drag, drain, dram, drenching, drink, drop, drouk, drown, duck, ducking, dunk, dunking, feed, flood, flush, fodder, gargle, gentle, glut, gluttonize, gorge, groom, gulp, guzzle, handle, harness, hitch, imbrue, imbruement, imbue, imbuement, immerse, impregnate, impregnation, infiltrate, infiltration, infuse, infusion, inject, injection, inundate, jam, jam-pack, jigger, jolt, lap, lash, lave, leach, leaching, libation, litter, lixiviate, lixiviation, macerate, maceration, manage, milk, nip, overburden, overcharge, overfeed, overfill, overlade, overload, overstuff, overweight, pack, peg, percolate, percolation, permeate, permeation, portion, potation, potion, pull, pulping, quaff, rinse, round, round of drinks, rub down, saddle, satiate, saturate, saturation, seethe, seething, shot, sip, slurp, snifter, snort, soak, soakage, soaking, sodden, sop, sopping, souse, sousing, spot, steep, steeping, stuff, submerge, suck, sup, supercharge, supersaturate, surcharge, surfeit, swig, swill, tame, teem, tend, tot, train, wash, water, waterlog, wet, yoke
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