Usually means: Soaks thoroughly with a liquid.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word drenches:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. drenches: Merriam-Webster
  2. drenches: Collins English Dictionary
  3. drenches: Vocabulary.com
  4. Drenches, drenches: Wordnik
  5. drenches: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. drenches: Wiktionary
  7. drenches: Dictionary.com
  8. drenches: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. drenches: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drenches: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. drenches: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. drenches: Medical dictionary

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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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