Literary notes about drenched (AI summary)
Writers wield the word drenched to evoke a visceral sense of total saturation, whether describing nature’s fury or a character’s emotional state. In some works, it paints a scene of literal immersion and physical wetness, as when torrential rain or crashing waves leave characters or landscapes soaked through ([1], [2], [3]). In others, it is employed metaphorically to illustrate overwhelming emotion or the pervasive influence of an atmosphere, such as a soul steeped in sorrow or a mood permeated by tragic passion ([4], [5], [6]). The versatile adjective not only anchors the reader in a richly sensory environment but also serves as a bridge between external forces and internal experiences, making the scenes more immediate and palpable ([7], [8]).
- The raging sea was swept with huge tattered clouds drenched by the waves.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - The breeze scattered the grey locks on his temples, the rain drenched his uncovered head, he sat hiding his face in his withered hands.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - We were all drenched, our clothes saturated with mud and water.
— from Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup - He was drenched, weary, and sad, and yet not so sad as drenched and weary, for he was cheered by a sense of success in a good cause.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy - And she drenched her bosom with ceaseless tears, which flowed in torrents as she sat, bitterly bewailing her own fate.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius - Every night I have drenched my pillow with tears, not for you, my friend, not for you, don’t flatter yourself!
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - For thy gain The Fates have drenched my soul in passion's rain, Pieria's roses twined about my brow.
— from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho - When in swinish sleep Their drenched natures lie as in a death, What cannot you and I perform upon The unguarded Duncan?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
