DRENCH
\dɹˈɛnt͡ʃ], \dɹˈɛntʃ], \d_ɹ_ˈɛ_n_tʃ]\
Definitions of DRENCH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.
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A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
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A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.
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A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
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A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.
By Noah Webster.
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To wet thoroughly; soak; forcibly give a dose to; as, to drench a horse.
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A dose of medicine for a horse or ox.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To fill with drink or liquid: to wet thoroughly: to physic by force.
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A draught: a dose of physic forced down the throat.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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(Sax. 'to soak.') To give liquid physic by force. A liquid medicine, given by violence, is called "a drench."
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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