drench

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vt. 使湿透, 使充满 n. 滂沱大雨, 弄湿

发音

US /dɹɛnt͡ʃ/
其它
UK /dɹɛnt͡ʃ/
US /dɹɪ̟nt͡ʃ/

词形变化

drenches 复数 drenched drenchedst drenches 三单 drenches drencheth drenching drencht drenching 现在分词 drenched 过去式 drenched 过去分词 drencht 过去式 drenchest drenchedst 过去式 drencheth 三单 drenched 复数 drencht 复数 drencht 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

使湿透；给（牲畜）灌药

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

    古体 比喻
  2. 2.

    A dose or draught of liquid medicine administered to an animal.

    生物 医学 动物学
  3. 1.

    An act of making someone or something completely wet; a soak or soaking, a wetting.

  4. 2.

    An amount of water or some other liquid that will make someone or something completely wet.

v.
  1. 1.

    To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.

    To administer a dose or draught of liquid medicine to (an animal), often by force.

    及物 生物 医学 动物学
  3. 3.

    To make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it; to saturate, to soak; also (archaic), to make (someone or something) completely wet by immersing in water or some other liquid; to soak, to steep.

    及物
  4. 4.

    To drown (someone).

    废旧 及物
  5. 5.

    To overwhelm (someone); to drown, to engulf.

    比喻 废旧 及物
  6. 6.

    To be drowned; also, to be immersed in water.

    不及物 废旧

词汇关系

动词

同义词 7

swamp soak douse sop dowse imbrue souse

上位词 8

wet provide supply flood cater ply impregnate saturate

下位词 7

flush sluice brine bate bedraggle draggle ret

词源

From Middle English drench, drenche (“beverage, drink; cup of drink, specifically a poisoned drink; medicinal potion, specifically an emetic (?)”) [and other forms], from Old English drenċ (“drink; draft, potion; dose (of medicine, poison, etc.)”), from Proto-West Germanic *dranki, from Proto-Germanic *drankiz (“drink; potion; dose”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw, pull; to gulp; to sip”). Doublet of drink (noun). Cognates * Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌺 (draggk), 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌺 (dragk, “beverage, drink”) * Old Dutch *dranc, (Middle Dutch dranc, modern Dutch drank (“beverage, drink”)) * Old High German tranc, tranch (Middle High German tranc, modern German Trank (“drink; potion”)) * Old Saxon dranc

来源：wiktionary