drench

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verb

1. drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
- The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor
• Syn:
swamp
• Derivationally related forms:
swamp (for: swamp)
• Hypernyms:
flood
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something ----s something
2. force to drink
• Topics:
animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
• Hypernyms:
provide, supply, ply, cater
• Cause:
drink, imbibe
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. permeate or impregnate
- The war drenched the country in blood
• Syn:
imbrue
• Hypernyms:
impregnate, saturate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody with something
- The waters drench the area
4. cover with liquid;
pour liquid onto
- souse water on his hot face
• Syn:
douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse
• Derivationally related forms:
souse (for: souse), sousing (for: souse), soaker (for: soak), soaking (for: soak)
• Hypernyms:
wet
• Hyponyms:
brine, bedraggle, draggle, bate, ret,
sluice, flush
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
- They drench the cloth with water and alcohol

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse, imbrue, swamp