Drench

Definitions

1. A dose or draught of liquid medicine (especially one causing sleepiness) taken by a person; specifically, a (large) dose, or one forced or poured down the throat.
   also, archaic, figuratively
2. An act of making someone or something completely wet; a soak or soaking, a wetting.
3. A dose or draught of liquid medicine administered to an animal.
4. An amount of water or some other liquid that will make someone or something completely wet.

Equivalents

16 more languages

العربيةالجرعةبللنقع

Bosanskiдоза

Catalàxopar

Esperantoirigacii

فارسیخیس کردنخیساندن

Suomiannoskastelu

Gaeilgebáighfolc

Galegoenchoupar

Hrvatskiдоза

Italianobagnareinfradiciare

日本語浸す

Македонскидозамокри

Nederlandsdoordrenken

Portuguêsencharcarensopar

Русскийпромачиватьпропитатьпропитывать

Српскидоза

Examples

“[T]hey need⟳ not carry⟳ ſuch an unvvorthy ſuſpicion over the Preachers of Gods vvord, as to tutor their unſoundneſſe vvith the Abcie of a Liturgy, or to diet their ignorance, and vvant of care, vvith the limited draught of a Mattin, and even ſong drench.”

“Let⟳ ſuch bethink them, if the ſleepy drench / Of that forgetful Lake benumme not ſtill, / That in our proper motion we aſcend / Up to our native ſeat: deſcent and fall⟳ / To us is adverſe.”

“Corpulence is a beauty: girls are fattened to a vast bulk by drenches of curds and cream thickened with flour, and are duly disciplined when they refuse⟳.”

“Guido heard all, swore the befitting oaths, / Shook off the relics of his poison-drench, / Got horse, was fairly started in pursuit […]”

“He [the horse-doctor] made up a bucket of bran-mash, and said a dipperful of it every two hours, alternated with a drench with turpentine and axle-grease in it, would either knock⟳ my ailments out of men in twenty-four hours, or so interest⟳ me in other ways as to make⟳ me forget⟳ they were on the premises. […] I took up the Christian Science book and read⟳ half of it, then took a dipperful of drench and read⟳ the other half.”

“O my ſvveet Harry ſaies ſhe! hovv manie haſt thou kild to day? Giue my roane horſe a drench (ſayes hee) and aunſvveres ſome foureteene, an houre after: a trifle, a trifle.”

“It [siler] ſtaieth the gurrie or running out of the belly in foure-footed beaſts, vvhether it bee given ſtamped by vvay of a drench and ſo injected, or chevved drie among their meat vvith ſalt.”

“A Drench of VVine has vvith ſucceſs been us'd; / And through a Horn, the gen'rous Juice infus'd: / VVhich timely taken op'd his cloſing Javvs; / But, if too late, the Patient's [a horse's] death did cauſe.”

“Whenever it was the thought first struck him / How Death, at unawares, might duck him / Deeper than the grave, and quench / The gin-shop's light⟳ in Hell's grim drench […]”

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