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Word Meanings - DRENCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic. As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink."
Additional info about word: DRENCH
1. To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic. As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink." Trench. 2. To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse. Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain; Their moisture has already drenched the plain. Dryden.
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- ARIDITY
1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris. - VENTILATE
brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a - STEEP
Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer. - STEEPLE
A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles - EXSICCATE
To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne. - STEEPLY
In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity. - STEEP-DOWN
Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak. - IMBRUEMENT
The act of imbruing or state of being imbrued. - MOISTENER
One who, or that which, moistens. Johnson. - IMMERSED
Growing wholly under water. Gray. (more info) 1. Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid. 2. Deeply occupied; engrossed; entangled. - SUBMERGENCE
The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; submersion. - IMMERSE
Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. "Things immerse in matter." Bacon. - DRENCHER
1. One who, or that which, west or steeps. 2. One who administers a drench. - IMBUEMENT
The act of imbuing; the state of being imbued; hence, a deep tincture. - STEEPLE-CROWNED
1. Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building. 2. Having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown. This grave, beared, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor. Hawthorne. - STEEPEN
To become steep or steeper. As the way steepened . . . I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path. H. Miller. - STEEPER
A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped. - MACERATE
weaken, enervate; cf. Gr. 1. To make lean; to cause to waste away. Harvey. 2. To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify. Baker. 3. To soften by steeping in a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts - MACERATER
One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp. - DRENCH
1. To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic. As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink." - INDRENCH
To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown. Shak. - EMACERATE
To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate. Bullokar. - HORSE-DRENCH
1. A dose of physic for a horse. Shak. 2. The appliance by which the dose is administred.