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▸ noun: (archaic, also figurative) 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.
▸ noun: (veterinary medicine) A dose or draught of liquid medicine administered to an animal.
▸ verb: (transitive)
▸ verb: To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.
▸ verb: (specifically, veterinary medicine) To administer a dose or draught of liquid medicine to (an animal), often by force.
▸ verb: 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.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To drown (someone).
▸ verb: (obsolete, figurative) To overwhelm (someone); to drown, to engulf.
▸ verb: (intransitive, obsolete) To be drowned; also, to be immersed in water.
▸ noun: An act of making someone or something completely wet; a soak or soaking, a wetting.
▸ noun: An amount of water or some other liquid that will make someone or something completely wet.
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▸ noun: (archaic, also figurative) 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.
▸ noun: (veterinary medicine) A dose or draught of liquid medicine administered to an animal.
▸ verb: (transitive)
▸ verb: To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.
▸ verb: (specifically, veterinary medicine) To administer a dose or draught of liquid medicine to (an animal), often by force.
▸ verb: 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.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To drown (someone).
▸ verb: (obsolete, figurative) To overwhelm (someone); to drown, to engulf.
▸ verb: (intransitive, obsolete) To be drowned; also, to be immersed in water.
▸ noun: An act of making someone or something completely wet; a soak or soaking, a wetting.
▸ noun: An amount of water or some other liquid that will make someone or something completely wet.
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