drench

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /dɹɛnt͡ʃ/
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• /dɹɪ̟nt͡ʃ/ Southern US, African-American Vernacular, Cork, pin–pen merger
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• rhymes with -ɛntʃ
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From Middle English drench, drenche (“beverage, drink; cup of drink, specifically a poisoned drink; medicinal potion, specifically an emetic (?)”) [and other forms], from Old English drenċ (“drink; draft, potion; dose (of medicine, poison, etc.)”), from Proto-West Germanic *dranki, from Proto-Germanic *drankiz (“drink; potion; dose”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dhrenǵ- (“to draw, pull; to gulp; to sip”). Doublet of drink (noun). Cognates * Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌺 (draggk), 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌺 (dragk, “beverage, drink”) * Old Dutch *dranc, (Middle Dutch dranc, modern Dutch drank (“beverage, drink”)) * Old High German tranc, tranch (Middle High German tranc, modern German Trank (“drink; potion”)) * Old Saxon dranc

The verb is derived from Middle English drenchen, drench (“to drown; to flood, inundate; to consume (drink or food); to give (someone) a drink; to poison (someone) with a drink; to immerse, soak, drench; to descend, fall, sink; to penetrate, permeate; (figurative) to engulf, overwhelm”) [and other forms], from Old English drenċan (“to give (someone) a drink; to immerse, soak, drench”), from Proto-West Germanic *drankijan, from Proto-Germanic *drankijaną (“to cause (someone) to drink”), the causative of *drinkaną (“to drink”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dhrenǵ- (“to draw, pull; to gulp; to sip”). Doublet of drink (verb). The noun is derived from the verb (etymology 2, verb sense 1.2). Cognates * Old High German trenchen (modern German tränken (“to give a drink; to water”)) * Old Norse drekkja, drenkja (Swedish dränka) * Old Saxon dręnkian (Dutch drenke (“to get a drink”))

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: annos — dose or draft of medicine taken by a person; (large) dose, or one forced or poured down the throat
• Macedonian: до́за ле́карство (dóza lékarstvo) — dose or draft of medicine taken by a person; (large) dose, or one forced or poured down the throat
• Finnish: annos — dose or draught of medicine administered to an animal
• Irish: droinse — dose or draught of medicine administered to an animal
• Irish: deoch leighis — dose or draught of medicine administered to an animal
• Low German: Drensch — dose or draught of medicine administered to an animal
• Macedonian: до́за (dóza) — dose or draught of medicine administered to an animal
• Macedonian: до́за ле́карство (dóza lékarstvo) — dose or draught of medicine administered to an animal
• Finnish: kastelu — amount of water, etc., that will make someone or something completely wet
• Finnish: juottaa — to cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink; to administer a dose or draught of liquid medicine to (an animal), often by force
• Lithuanian: girdyti — to cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink; to administer a dose or draught of liquid medicine to (an animal), often by force
• Lithuanian: pagirdyti — to cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink; to administer a dose or draught of liquid medicine to (an animal), often by force
• Lithuanian: sugirdyti — to cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink; to administer a dose or draught of liquid medicine to (an animal), often by force
• Polish: poić — to cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink; to administer a dose or draught of liquid medicine to (an animal), often by force
• Arabic: بَلَّلَ (ballala) — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Arabic: نَقَعَ (naqaʕa) — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Old Armenian: թանամ (tʻanam) — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Bulgarian: намокрям (namokrjam) — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Bulgarian: напоявам (napojavam) — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Catalan: xopar — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Corsican: intinghje — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Czech: promočit — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Czech: zmáčet — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Dutch: doordrenken — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Esperanto: irigacii — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Esperanto: saturi — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Finnish: kastella (läpimäräksi) — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• French: abreuver — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• French: saturer — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• French: tremper — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Galician: enchoupar — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• German: durchnässen — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Ancient Greek: βρέχω (brékhō) — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Ido: arozegar — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Ido: trempar — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Irish: báigh — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Irish: folc — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Italian: bagnare — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Italian: infradiciare — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Japanese: 浸す (hitasu) — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Macedonian: мо́кри (mókri) — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Māori: kōpiro — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Persian: خیس کردن (xis kardan) — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Persian: خیساندن (xisândan) — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Portuguese: encharcar — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Portuguese: ensopar — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Russian: промачивать (promačivatʹ) — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Russian: пропи́тывать (propítyvatʹ) — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Russian: пропита́ть (propitátʹ) — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Serbo-Croatian: ква̏сити — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak
• Serbo-Croatian: kvȁsiti — to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it — see also saturate, soak