English-Thai Dictionary

drench

VT ตกหนัก (ฝน  tok-nak

 

drench

VT ทำให้ เปียกโชก  ทำให้ ชุ่ม  dowse soak saturate tam-haipeak-chok

 

drench in

PHRV ทำให้ เปื้อน  ทำให้ เปียก  ทำให้ ชุ่ม  saturate with soak with tam-hai-puean

 

drench with

PHRV ทำให้ เปื้อน  ทำให้ เปียก  ทำให้ ชุ่ม  saturate with soak with tam-hai-puean

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DRENCH

v.t.[G., to water, to soak. See Drink and Drag. ] 1. To wet thoroughly; to soak; to fill or cover with water or other liquid; as garments drenched in rain or in the sea; the flood has drenched the earth; swords drenched in blood.
2. To saturate with drink.
3. To purge violently.

 

DRENCH

n.A draught; a swill; also, a portion of medicine to purge a beast, particularly a horse. Hence, a violent dose of physic to be forced down the throat.

 

DRENCHED

pp. Soaked; thoroughly wet; purged with a dose.

 

DRENCHER

n.One who wets or steeps; one who gives a drench to a beast.

 

DRENCHING

ppr. Wetting thoroughly; soaking; purging.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DRENCH

Drench, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drenched; p. pr. & vb. n. Drenching. ]Etym: [AS. drencan to give to drink, to drench, the causal of drincan to drink; akin to D. drenken, Sw. dränka, G. tränken. 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.

 

DRENCH

Drench, n. Etym: [AS. drenc. See Drench, v. t.]

 

Defn: 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.

 

DRENCH

Drench, n. Etym: [AS. dreng warrior, soldier, akin to Icel. drengr.](O. Eng. Law )

 

Defn: A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book. [Obs. ] Burrill.

 

DRENCHE

DRENCHE Drench "e, v. t. & i.

 

Defn: To drown. [Obs. ] In the sea he drenched. Chaucer.

 

DRENCHER

DRENCHER Drench "er, n.

 

1. One who, or that which, west or steeps.

 

2. One who administers a drench.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

drench

drench |drenCH drɛntʃ | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 wet thoroughly; soak: I fell in the stream and got drenched | (as noun drenching ) : a severe drenching would kill his uncle. • cover (something ) liberally or thoroughly: cool patios drenched in flowers. 2 forcibly administer a drug in liquid form orally to (an animal ). ▶noun a dose of medicine administered to an animal. • archaic a draft of a medicinal or poisonous liquid. ORIGIN Old English drencan ‘force to drink, ’ drenc ‘a drink or draft, ’ of Germanic origin; related to German tränken (verb ), Trank (noun ), also to drink .

 

Oxford Dictionary

drench

drench |drɛn (t )ʃ | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 wet thoroughly; soak: I fell in the stream and was drenched. • cover (something ) liberally or thoroughly: cool patios drenched in flowers. 2 forcibly administer a drug in liquid form orally to (an animal ). ▶noun a dose of medicine administered to an animal. • archaic a draught of a medicinal or poisonous liquid. ORIGIN Old English drencan ‘force to drink ’, drenc ‘a drink or draught ’, of Germanic origin; related to German tränken (verb ), Trank (noun ), also to drink .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

drench

drench verb the rain has drenched us to the bone: soak, saturate, wet through, permeate, douse, souse; drown, swamp, inundate, flood; steep, bathe.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

drench

drench verb rain was falling fast, drenching the countryside: soak, saturate, wet through, wet thoroughly, permeate, drown, swamp, submerge, inundate, flood; douse, souse, swill down, sluice down, slosh; steep, bathe; rinse, wash. ANTONYMS dry.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

drench

drench /dren (t )ʃ /動詞 他動詞 〈人 物 〉をびしょぬれにする (soak ); 【光などで 】〈場所 〉を満たす «with , in » (!しばしば受け身で ) .

 

drenched

drenched /-t /形容詞 «…で /…に浸 （つ ） かって » びしょぬれの «with /in » ▸ be drenched to the skin 体中びしょぬれである ▸ a sun- drenched room 日光で満たされた部屋