drenching

noun 2adj 1

Definitions

adj

1

That causes one to become extremely wet.

We'll be experiencing drenching rain all weekend.

In its 5 a.m. update, the National Hurricane Center noted that in its initial entry onto land, the storm remains a drenching, windy threat.

noun

1

The act by which something is drenched; a soaking.

[…] and it contains a very good selection of shrubs and herbaceous plants, which, having good soil and plentiful drenchings of water from a garden-engine all the summer, thrive to admiration.

2

The administering of a medicinal draught to an animal.

Horses,^([sic]) get all sorts of medicines, wormings, drenchings, and their food may well have been produced chemically […]

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