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Meanings of drench in English
Synonyms
Examples for "soak"
Examples for "soak"
1
We wake in the early morning and soak the floor with water.
2
Crush the toast in your hands, and soak it in the milk.
3
Let the shrimp soak for 30 minutes, then drain and coarsely chop.
4
The Gold Coast is a good option to soak up some sunshine.
5
Time for a long soak in the bath, then change for dinner.
1
This sop would be Juliette, the denunciator instead of Déroulède the denounced.
2
When He had dipped the sop He gave it to Judas Iscariot.
3
Then take fresh cotton, wet in milk, and sop it up carefully.
4
He turned to an extremely agitated Count Falkes and offered a sop.
5
Sicily would be an excellent sop for the haughty republic of Venice.
1
The sea will douse the land, in time, but it rises slowly.
2
C-130 planes carrying water have also been deployed to douse burning locations.
3
Lizzie brought it in, thinking he would use it to douse Sweet.
4
We must douse the glim, and in the dark change our anchorage.
5
I might douse him with lighter fluid and set him on fire.
1
Carefully rethinking my words, I once again repositioned the rods to dowse.
2
It's like I can dowse for the dead with my silver eye now.
3
He got out of bed, to dowse his head in a basin of water.
4
Now then, lads, dowse the sail smartly and get to work with the bucket.
5
There were continual scuffles including an attempt to dowse the flame with a fire extinguisher.
1
They souse themselves in water that has been heated to 140 deg.
2
This, and enough, premised, I go souse into my personal history.
3
Killin' time, you know-makesyou think of boiling souse and head-cheese.
4
GLADYS: Ah, then he will have to cut out his souse.
5
So you hadn't heard how Bud's turned out to be a regular souse?
Usage of drench in English
1
Heavy rains drench Oregon, more rain expected to flood rivers PORTLAND, Ore.
2
Bill was mixing a bottle of medicine to drench a sick mule.
3
Isaac may also drench and possibly damage other New Orleans-area refineries as well.
4
She often slipped out in the early morning to drench herself with dew.
5
Mix in a pint of gruel, and drench him with it.
6
Some 30mm of rainfall is expected to drench the Gold Coast on Saturday.
7
Slowly, with all its drench and cumber, the hill was surmounted.
8
But before I could drench him again he raised his lids.
9
Andrews hurried home so as not to drench his only suit.
10
Again Beaudry's heart felt the familiar drench of an icy wave.
11
Anyone who had an excuse to leave the light-drenched market took it.
12
Jerry was drenched in sweat and the torch trembled in his hand.
13
Quick, maddening, drenching, it comes; enveloping them in wet in a moment.
14
The men were in light tropical uniform and drenched to the skin.
15
See, I am drenched to the skin; I could not manage it.
16
They arrived at the top, drenched but with seven minutes to spare.
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Drench across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common