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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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
drenched
adjective
1: wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "a shirt saturated with perspiration"; "his shoes were sopping (or soaking)"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy clothes" [syn: {saturated}, {soaked}, {soaking}, {sodden}, {sopping}, {soppy}]
2: abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination; "drenched in moonlight"; "moon-drenched meadows" [syn: {drenched in}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "drenched": addled, awash, bathed, beery, bemused, besotted, blind drunk, bloated, bursting, choked, congested, crammed, crapulent, crapulous, crowded, deluged, dipped, distended, dizzy, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, drunk, drunken, engulfed, far-gone, filled to overflowing, flooded, flustered, fou, full, gay, giddy, glorious, glutted, gorged, happy, hyperemic, immersed, in liquor, in spate, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, inundated, jam-packed, jammed, jolly, macerated, maudlin, mellow, merry, muddled, nappy, oozing, overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweighted, packed, permeated, plethoric, ready to burst, reeling, running over, satiated, saturated, seeping, shikker, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, sotted, soused, steeped, stuffed, stuffed up, submerged, submersed, supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swamped, swollen, tiddly, tipsy, under the influence, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, wet, whelmed, wringing wet
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