drench

English

Etymology 1

Middle English drenchen, from Old English drenċan, from Proto-Germanic *drankijaną (compare Dutch drenken ‘to get a drink’, German tränken ‘to water, give a drink’), causative of *drinkaną (“to drink”). More at drink.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɹɛntʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɛntʃ

Noun

drench (plural drenches)

1. A draught administered to an animal.
2. (obsolete) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
   • Dryden

     A drench of wine.

   • Shakespeare

     Give my roan horse a drench.

Translations

a draught administered to an animal

• Irish: deoch leighis (ga) f, droinse (ga) m

Verb

drench (third-person singular simple present drenches, present participle drenching, simple past and past participle drenched)

1. To soak, to make very wet.

Related terms

• drenched

Translations

to soak, to make very wet

• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: թանամ (tʿanam)

• Bulgarian: намокрям (bg) (namokrjam), напоявам (bg) (napojavam)
• Corsican: intinghje (co)
• Finnish: kastella (fi), läpimäräksi (fi)
• French: tremper (fr)
• German: durchnässen (de)
• Ido: trempar (io), arozegar (io)

• Irish: báigh (ga), folc (ga)
• Italian: bagnare (it), infradiciare (it)
• Persian: خیس کردن (fa) (khis kardan), خیساندن (fa) (khisândan)
• Russian: промачивать (ru) (promačivatʹ), пропитывать (ru) (propityvatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: квасити (sh)

  Roman: kvasiti (sh)

• Spanish: empapar (es)

Etymology 2

Anglo-Saxon dreng warrior, soldier, akin to Icelandic drengr.

Noun

drench (plural drenches)

1. (obsolete, UK) A military vassal, mentioned in the Domesday Book.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)