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drench

verb as in wet thoroughly

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Example Sentences

Even by day the Maruts create darkness with the water-bearing cloud, when they drench the earth.

Drench is the causative of drink: here the nominative of the verb is ‘Iris’ and the object ‘beds.’

Sometimes she was so weary that she sank down by the roadside and let130 the night-dew drench her aching limbs.

Epsom salt, in one ounce doses, given either as a gruel or a drench, will be found to answer the purpose well.

You will drench yourself in the blood of the innocent, only that you may do it—while no effect shall follow.'

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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