drenching
noun
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adj
Etymology: From Middle English drenchyng, drenchynge, drenchende, from Old English drenċende, from Proto-Germanic *drankijandz, present participle of *drankijaną (“to drench”), equivalent to drench + -ing.
- That causes one to become extremely wet.
“We'll be experiencing drenching rain all weekend.”
“In its 5 a.m. update, the National Hurricane Center noted that in its initial entry onto land, the storm remains a drenching, windy threat.”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English drenchinge, equivalent to drench + -ing.
- The act by which something is drenched; a soaking.
“[…] and it contains a very good selection of shrubs and herbaceous plants, which, having good soil and plentiful drenchings of water from a garden-engine all the summer, thrive to admiration.”
- The administering of a medicinal draught to an animal.
“Horses,^([sic]) get all sorts of medicines, wormings, drenchings, and their food may well have been produced chemically […]”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English drenchyng, drenchynge, drenchende, from Old English drenċende, from Proto-Germanic *drankijandz, present participle of *drankijaną (“to drench”), equivalent to drench + -ing.
- present participle and gerund of drench