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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: drenching (0.02124 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to drenching.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: drench
hujan lebat
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: drenching
drenching
n : the act of making something completely wet;
“he gave it a
good drenching” [syn:
soaking,
souse,
sousing]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Drenching
Drench
\Drench\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Drenched; p. pr. & vb. n.
Drenching.] [AS. drencan to give to drink, to drench, the
causal of drincan to drink; akin to D. drenken, Sw.
dr["a]nka, G. tr["a]nken. See
Drink.]
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.
[1913 Webster]
As
“to fell,” is
“to make to fall,” and
“to
lay,” to make to lie.'' so
“to drench,” is
“to
make to drink.” --Trench.
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2. To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to
saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.
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Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain;
Their moisture has already drenched the plain.
--Dryden.
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