Explore Drench through 9 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like swamp or souse. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Drench meaning
- A dose or draught of liquid medicine (especially one causing sleepiness) taken by a person; specifically, a (large) dose, or one forced or poured down the throat.
- A dose or draught of liquid medicine administered to an animal.
Synonyms of Drench
Using Drench
- The main meaning on this page is: A dose or draught of liquid medicine (especially one causing sleepiness) taken by a person; specifically, a (large) dose, or one forced or poured down the throat. | A dose or draught of liquid medicine administered to an animal.
- Useful related words include: swamp, souse, sop, soak.
- In the example corpus, drench often appears in combinations such as: to drench, drench the.
Context around Drench
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Drench
- In this selection, "drench" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, judy, southern, georgia and unsuspecting stand out and add context to how "drench" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and then drench southern georgia and began to drench the streets. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "drench" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with drench
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I thought getting "drenched" was when Dame Judy Drench peed on you. (12 words)
They also play with and drench each other in buttermilk and turmeric. (12 words)
One man lifted a large jug as if to drench unsuspecting strangers in paint, before revealing the container was empty. (20 words)
Melbourne is on track for one of its wettest four-month periods since records began with and heavy rainfall expected to drench the state on Wednesday and remain until Monday for some areas. (33 words)
Idalia made landfall Wednesday morning along Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 3 storm, causing widespread flooding and damage before moving north to drench Georgia and North Carolina. (30 words)
In Capitola, as rain began to drench the streets once again, Dominick King was rushing to save anything he could from his restaurant, My Thai Beach, before the next storm. (30 words)
Example sentences (9)
After landing in the Big Bend region, Idalia is forecast to cross the Florida Peninsula and then drench southern Georgia and the Carolinas on Thursday.
Idalia made landfall Wednesday morning along Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 3 storm, causing widespread flooding and damage before moving north to drench Georgia and North Carolina.
In Capitola, as rain began to drench the streets once again, Dominick King was rushing to save anything he could from his restaurant, My Thai Beach, before the next storm.
Melbourne is on track for one of its wettest four-month periods since records began with and heavy rainfall expected to drench the state on Wednesday and remain until Monday for some areas.
Parts of Victoria could receive a month's rain in a matter of hours, with heavy summer downpours set to drench the state.
One man lifted a large jug as if to drench unsuspecting strangers in paint, before revealing the container was empty.
I mean finding the happy in the midst of the storm, coming out from the deluge of negativity waiting to drench us daily.
I thought getting "drenched" was when Dame Judy Drench peed on you.
They also play with and drench each other in buttermilk and turmeric.
Common combinations with drench
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to drench 7×
- drench the 4×