indrench
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From in- + drench or equivalent.
Verb
[edit]indrench (third-person singular simple present indrenches, present participle indrenching, simple past and past participle indrenched)
- (transitive, obsolete) To sink or immerse; to steep.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- They lye indrench'd. I tell thee, I am mad