Drenching
adj, noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The act by which something is drenched; a soaking.
"[…] and it contains a very good selection of shrubs and herbaceous plants, which, having good soil and plentiful drenchings of water from a garden-engine all the summer, thrive to admiration."
- 2 the act of making something completely wet wordnet
- 3 The administering of a medicinal draught to an animal.
"Horses,^([sic]) get all sorts of medicines, wormings, drenchings, and their food may well have been produced chemically […]"
- 1 present participle and gerund of drench form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 1 That causes one to become extremely wet.
"We'll be experiencing drenching rain all weekend."
Example
More examples"We'll be experiencing drenching rain all weekend."
Etymology
From Middle English drenchyng, drenchynge, drenchende, from Old English drenċende, from Proto-Germanic *drankijandz, present participle of *drankijaną (“to drench”), equivalent to drench + -ing.
From Middle English drenchinge, equivalent to drench + -ing.
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