0 to make someone or something extremely wet:
A sudden thunderstorm had drenched us to the skin.
The role of arithmetic and geometric mean worm egg counts in faecal egg count reduction tests and in monitoring strategic drenching programs in sheep.
The turbulent journey ends on the dizzying heights of a church steeple, at which point the dreamer awakens drenched in sweat.
These farms were randomly selected and no previous history of drench failures or concerns in nematode control was recorded through farmer questionnaires.
I will wipe them out without trace, drench them in bitterness!
This interpretation, although drenched in the scholarly literature of its subject, seems oddly old-fashioned.
However, drip and drench are in complementary distribution, for the following reasons.
If they go out themselves, they know they will do not good, but only get drenched with the others.
Shepherds would have been drenched with the solutions which are absorbed through the skin.
