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Drenching

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Noun

1. drenching, soaking, souse, sousing

the act of making something completely wet

Example Sentences:
'he gave it a good drenching'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Drenching

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verb (transitive)
1. 
to make completely wet; soak
2. 
to give liquid medicine to (an animal), esp by force
noun
3. 
the act or an instance of drenching
4. 
a dose of liquid medicine given to an animal

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Drenching

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verb transitive
1. 
to make (a horse, cow, etc.) swallow a medicinal liquid
2. 
to make wet all over; soak or saturate in liquid
noun
3. 
a large liquid dose, esp. for a sick animal
4. 
a drenching or soaking
5. 
a solution for soaking

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Drenching

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tr.v. drenched, drench·ing, drench·es
1. To wet through and through; soak.
2. To administer a large oral dose of liquid medicine to (an animal).
3. To provide with something in great abundance; surfeit: just drenched in money.
n.
1. The act of wetting or becoming wet through and through.
2. Something that drenches: a drench of rain.
3. A large dose of liquid medicine, especially one administered to an animal by pouring down the throat.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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