Usually means: Soak completely with a liquid.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. drench: Merriam-Webster
  2. drench: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. drench: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. drench: Collins English Dictionary
  5. drench: Vocabulary.com
  6. Drench, drench: Wordnik
  7. drench: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. drench: Wiktionary
  9. drench: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. drench: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. drench: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. drench: Dictionary.com
  13. drench: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. drench: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Drench: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. drench: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. drench: Rhymezone
  18. drench: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. drench: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. drench: FreeDictionary.org
  21. drench: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. drench: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. drench: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drench: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drench: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. drench: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. drench: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drench: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drench: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (drench)

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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