drench
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English drench, drenche (“beverage, drink; cup of drink, specifically a poisoned drink; medicinal potion, specifically an emetic (?)”) [and other forms], from Old English drenċ (“drink; draft, potion; dose (of medicine, poison, etc.)”), from Proto-West Germanic *dranki, from Proto-Germanic *drankiz (“drink; potion; dose”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw, pull; to gulp; to sip”). Doublet of drink (noun).
Cognates
* Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌺 (draggk), 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌺 (dragk, “beverage, drink”)
* Old Dutch *dranc, (Middle Dutch dranc, modern Dutch drank (“beverage, drink”))
* Old High German tranc, tranch (Middle High German tranc, modern German Trank (“drink; potion”))
* Old Saxon dranc
Inflected forms:
form: drenches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drenches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: drenching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: drenched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: drenched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: drench
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: drench
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: drenched
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: drencht
pos: verb
tags: archaic
first-person
past
singular
form: drench
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: drenchest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: drenched
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: drenchedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: drencht
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: drenches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: drencheth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: drenched
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: drencht
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
singular
third-person
form: drench
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: drenched
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: drencht
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
plural
form: drench
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: drenched
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: drencht
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
subjunctive
form: drench
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: drenching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: drenched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: drencht
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: A dose or draught of liquid medicine (especially one causing sleepiness) taken by a person; specifically, a (large) dose, or one forced or poured down the throat.
pos: noun
tags: also
archaic
figuratively
examples: [T]hey need not carry ſuch an unvvorthy ſuſpicion over the Preachers of Gods vvord, as to tutor their unſoundneſſe vvith the Abcie of a Liturgy, or to diet their ignorance, and vvant of care, vvith the limited draught of a Mattin, and even ſong drench.
Let ſuch bethink them, if the ſleepy drench / Of that forgetful Lake benumme not ſtill, / That in our proper motion we aſcend / Up to our native ſeat: deſcent and fall / To us is adverſe.
Corpulence is a beauty: girls are fattened to a vast bulk by drenches of curds and cream thickened with flour, and are duly disciplined when they refuse.
Guido heard all, swore the befitting oaths, / Shook off the relics of his poison-drench, / Got horse, was fairly started in pursuit […]
He [the horse-doctor] made up a bucket of bran-mash, and said a dipperful of it every two hours, alternated with a drench with turpentine and axle-grease in it, would either knock my ailments out of men in twenty-four hours, or so interest me in other ways as to make me forget they were on the premises. […] I took up the Christian Science book and read half of it, then took a dipperful of drench and read the other half.
gloss: A dose or draught of liquid medicine administered to an animal.
pos: noun
examples: O my ſvveet Harry ſaies ſhe! hovv manie haſt thou kild to day? Giue my roane horſe a drench (ſayes hee) and aunſvveres ſome foureteene, an houre after: a trifle, a trifle.
It [siler] ſtaieth the gurrie or running out of the belly in foure-footed beaſts, vvhether it bee given ſtamped by vvay of a drench and ſo injected, or chevved drie among their meat vvith ſalt.
A Drench of VVine has vvith ſucceſs been us'd; / And through a Horn, the gen'rous Juice infus'd: / VVhich timely taken op'd his cloſing Javvs; / But, if too late, the Patient's [a horse's] death did cauſe.
gloss: To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Pork ſucceeds to Beef, Pies to Puddings: The Cloth is remov'd, Madam, drench'd vvith a Bumper, drops a Courtſey, and departs; […]
But music alone, would not do—Some roast-beef was a necessary article, and some wine, to feed and drench the actors.
A stranger maiden, passing fair, / Had drenched him with a beverage rare;— […]
If the people felt themselves so happy; if they had enjoyed, and were enjoying, such prosperity as to call for a Jubilee, they would, of course, rejoice, they would sing and dance and shout, without being fed and drenched by way of hire to sing, dance, and shout.
Strange that such a cursing wretch should not have laid to heart, that those God's hand will sure undo, who cause their parents wounded heart to smart, whose blood and marrow fed and drenched them, and of whom they form a part.
gloss: To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.
pos: verb
tags: specifically
transitive
gloss: To make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it; to saturate, to soak; also (archaic), to make (someone or something) completely wet by immersing in water or some other liquid; to soak, to steep.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That our Garments being (as they were) drencht in the Sea, hold notwithſtanding their freſhneſſe and gloſſes, being rather new dy'de then ſtain'd with ſalte water.
Deſolations by vvarrs; hovv many fields have been drencht vvith blood, and compoſted vvith carcaſſes; hovv many Millions of men have been cut off in all ages by the edge of the ſvvord?
Novv dam the Ditches, and the Floods reſtrain: / Their moiſture has already drench'd the Plain.
Good Shepherds after ſheering, drench their Sheep, / And their Flocks Father (forc'd from high to leap) / Svvims dovvn the Stream, and plunges in the Deep.
I've ſeen a Beau, in ſome ill-fated hour, / VVhen o'er the Stones choak'd Kennels ſvvell the Shovv'r, / In gilded Chariot loll; he vvith Diſdain, / Vievvs ſpatter'd Paſſengers, all drench'd in Rain; […]
I'll drench my Svvord in thy deteſted Blood, / Or ſoon make thee Immortal by my ovvn.
Thou [God] visitest the earth, and waterest it; / Thou abundantly enrichest it / With the 'dewy' stream of God, replete with water. / Thou preparest, and fittest it for corn: / Thou drenchest its furrows; its clods thou dissolvest; / Thou mellowest it with showers; thou blessest its increase; […]
With that, straight up the hill there rode / Two horsemen drenched with gore, / And in their arms, a helpless load, / A wounded knight they bore.
I knew the flowers, I knew the leaves, I knew / The tearful glimmer of the languid dawn / On those long, rank, dark woodwalks drenched in dew, / Leading from lawn to lawn.
War! thy wild chariot rolls o'er piles of the slain, / Thou drenchest empires in thy crimson rain!
Thou re-echoedst a mysterious roar, and drenchedst the thirsty earth with rain.
gloss: To drown (someone).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: VVhat flames (q[uo]d he) vvhen I thee preſent ſee, / In daunger rather to be drent, then brent?
He lookt a little further, and eſpyde / Another vvretch, vvhoſe carcas deepe vvas drent / VVithin the riuer, vvhich the ſame did hyde: […]
Her, vvhom his furie hath from earth exil'd, / And in the ſtrangling vvaters drencht his child; […]
gloss: To overwhelm (someone); to drown, to engulf.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
obsolete
transitive
gloss: To be drowned; also, to be immersed in water.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Alas, now drencheth my ſwete fo, / That with the ſpoyle of my hart did go, / And left me but (alas) why did he ſo?
Related words: bedrench
bedrink
drenched
drencher
drenching
drinkle
fordrench
overdrench
Derived words: horse-drench
endrench
indrench
sun-drenched
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: juottaa
lang: Lithuanian
word: girdyti
lang: Lithuanian
word: pagirdyti
lang: Lithuanian
word: sugirdyti
lang: Polish
word: poić