Synonyms of the word drench


DRENCHCATER - DOUSE - DOWSE - FLOOD - IMBRUE - IMPREGNATE - PLY - PROVIDE - SATURATE - SOAK - SOP - SOUSE - SUPPLY - SWAMP - WET

drench

  • n. A draught administered to an animal.
  • n. (obsolete) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also,…
  • v. To soak, to make very wet.
  • v. To cause to drink; especially, to dose (e.g. a horse) with medicine by force.
  • n. (obsolete, Britain) A military vassal, mentioned in the Domesday Book.

cater

  • v. (transitive) To provide food professionally for a special occasion.
  • v. (transitive, often with to) To provide things to satisfy a person or a need, to serve.
  • n. (obsolete) A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.
  • v. (obsolete) To cut diagonally.
  • n. (card games, dice games) The four of cards or dice.

douse

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.
  • v. (intransitive) To fall suddenly into water.
  • v. (transitive) To put out; to extinguish.
  • v. (transitive) To strike.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly.
  • n. A blow; stroke.

dowse

  • n. A blow on the face.
  • v. To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.
  • v. To beat or thrash.
  • v. To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc.

flood

  • n. A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall…
  • n. (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt…
  • n. The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
  • n. A floodlight.
  • n. Menstrual discharge; menses.
  • n. (obsolete) Water as opposed to land.
  • v. To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
  • v. To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
  • v. (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than cannot…
  • v. (Internet, computing) To paste numerous lines of text to a chat system in order to disrupt the conversation.

imbrue

  • v. To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.).

impregnate

  • v. (transitive) To cause to become pregnant.
  • v. (transitive) To fertilize.
  • v. (transitive) To saturate, or infuse.
  • v. (transitive) To fill pores or spaces with a substance.
  • v. (intransitive, dated) To become pregnant.

ply

  • n. A layer of material.
  • n. A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up yarn or rope.
  • n. (colloquial) Plywood.
  • n. (artificial intelligence, game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn", or one move made…
  • n. (now chiefly Scotland) State, condition.
  • v. (transitive) To bend; to fold.
  • v. (intransitive) To flex.
  • v. (transitive) To work at diligently.
  • v. (intransitive) To work diligently.
  • v. (transitive) To use vigorously.
  • v. (transitive) To travel over regularly.
  • v. (transitive) To persist in offering something to.
  • v. (transitive) To press upon; to urge importunately.
  • v. (transitive) To employ diligently; to use steadily.
  • v. (nautical) To work to windward; to beat.

provide

  • v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
  • v. To act to prepare for something.
  • v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
  • v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
  • v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
  • v. To make possible or attainable.
  • v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
  • v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

saturate

  • v. To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
  • v. To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that…

soak

  • v. (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
  • v. (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
  • v. (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
  • v. (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up).
  • v. (figuratively, transitive) To take money from.
  • v. (slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
  • v. (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
  • v. (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
  • v. (figuratively, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
  • n. An immersion in water etc.
  • n. (slang, Britain) A drunkard.
  • n. (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.

sop

  • n. Something entirely soaked.
  • n. A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
  • n. Something given or done to pacify or bribe.
  • n. A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop.
  • n. Gravy. (Appalachia).
  • n. (obsolete) A thing of little or no value.
  • v. To steep or dip in any liquid.

souse

  • n. Something kept or steeped in brine.
  • n. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
  • n. A person suffering from alcoholism.
  • v. To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
  • n. The act of sousing, or swooping.
  • n. A heavy blow.
  • v. (now dialectal, transitive) to strike, beat.
  • v. (now dialectal, intransitive) to fall heavily.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) to pounce upon.
  • n. (obsolete) sou (the French coin).
  • n. (dated) A small amount.

supply

  • v. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
  • v. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
  • v. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
  • v. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
  • v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
  • v. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office;…
  • n. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
  • n. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
  • n. (in the plural) provisions.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual…
  • n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
  • adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

swamp

  • n. A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth…
  • n. A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures who have adapted specifically…
  • v. To drench or fill with water.
  • v. To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
  • v. (figuratively) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

wet

  • adj. Of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.
  • adj. Of weather or a time period, rainy.
  • adj. Made up of liquid or moisture.
  • adj. (Britain, informal) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
  • adj. (slang, of a woman) sexually aroused.
  • adj. (slang, of a person) Inexperienced in a task or profession; having the characteristics of a rookie.
  • adj. (of a scientist or laboratory) Working with chemical or biological matter.
  • adj. (chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
  • adj. Permitting alcoholic beverages, as during Prohibition.
  • adj. (fountain pens and calligraphy) Depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
  • adj. (slang, archaic) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
  • adj. (of a burrito, sandwich, etc.) Covered in a sauce.
  • n. Liquid or moisture.
  • n. Rainy weather.
  • n. (Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized).
  • n. (Britain, pejorative) A moderate Conservative.
  • n. (colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
  • n. (US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
  • v. (transitive) To cover or impregnate with liquid.
  • v. (transitive) To accidentally urinate in or on.
  • v. (intransitive) To make or become wet.
  • v. (transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
  • v. Misspelling of whet.

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