A sudden summer shower drenched them in sheets of rain.
•My raincoat was drenched with droplets from the foggy night air.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
drench — [ drentʃ ] verb transitive to make someone or something very wet … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
drench — UK [drentʃ] / US verb [transitive] Word forms drench : present tense I/you/we/they drench he/she/it drenches present participle drenching past tense drenched past participle drenched to make someone or something very wet … English dictionary
drench — [drentʃ] verb [T] to make someone or something very wet drenched [drentʃt] adj … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
drench — [drentʃ] v [T] [: Old English; Origin: drencan; related to drink] to make something or someone extremely wet ▪ In the early morning they had got drenched in the grass. >drenching [ˈdrentʃıŋ] adj ▪ drenching rain … Dictionary of contemporary English
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