Word Meanings - DRENCHE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To drown. In the sea he drenched. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to DRENCHE)

• DROWN
  To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak. (more info) be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken,
• DRENCHER
  1. One who, or that which, west or steeps. 2. One who administers a drench.
• 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."
• DRENCHE
  To drown. In the sea he drenched. Chaucer.
• DROWNER
  One who, or that which, drowns.
• DROWNAGE
  The act of drowning.
• INDRENCH
  To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown. Shak.
• HORSE-DRENCH
  1. A dose of physic for a horse. Shak. 2. The appliance by which the dose is administred.
• BEDRENCH
  To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak. Shak.
• OVERDROWN
  To wet or drench to excess. W. Browne.