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All drench synonyms

drench
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verb drench

  • inundate — to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge.
  • soak — to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
  • deluge — A deluge of things is a large number of them which arrive or happen at the same time.
  • saturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
  • drown — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
  • douse — to plunge into water or the like; drench: She doused the clothes in soapy water.
  • submerge — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
  • impregnate — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
  • steep — having an almost vertical slope or pitch, or a relatively high gradient, as a hill, an ascent, stairs, etc.
  • immerse — to plunge into or place under a liquid; dip; sink.
  • dunk — to dip (a doughnut, cake, etc.) into coffee, milk, or the like, before eating.
  • souse — to swoop or pounce upon.
  • teem — to abound or swarm; be prolific or fertile (usually followed by with).
  • flood — a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
  • pour — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
  • sop — a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
  • seethe — to surge or foam as if boiling.
  • duck — any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
  • dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
  • imbrue — to stain: He refused to imbrue his hands with the blood of more killing.
  • sodden — soaked with liquid or moisture; saturated.
  • wet — moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid: wet hands.

noun drench

  • swilling — liquid or partly liquid food for animals, especially kitchen refuse given to swine; hogwash.
  • draft — a drawing, sketch, or design.
  • draff — dregs, as in a brewing process; lees; refuse.
  • swill — liquid or partly liquid food for animals, especially kitchen refuse given to swine; hogwash.
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