| 词汇 | drench |
| 释义 | drench verb[ T ] uk /drentʃ/ us /drentʃ/ [ often passive ] to make someone or something extremely wet: 使湿透;淋透;浇透 drench someone to the skinA sudden thunderstorm had drenched us to the skin.突如其来的雷阵雨把我们淋透了。 be drenched withThe athletes were drenched with sweat.运动员的汗水湿透了衣服。 be drenched inShe likes to eat her popcorn drenched in chilli sauce. to cover in or fill with liquid wetWet the flannel before you wipe the child's face. moistenHe licked his lips to moisten them. dampenUse a dampened paper towel to clean the cooker. saturateFully saturate the ground after planting seeds. soakSoak the clothes with detergent overnight. [ usually passive ] to make something have a very large amount of a quality: be drenched inThe opera was light on plot and positively drenched in comedy. be drenched withHis speech drew thunderous applause during a rally drenched with patriotism. He would wake in the night, drenched in perspiration. If you drench your salad in dressing it won't be as healthy. They got back to the campsite, drenched with rain. The fight left him drenched with blood. Rain had come in through the window, drenching the carpet. The text is drenched in religious imagery. His presence absolutely drenches the movie in cool. Wet weather & wetness clammily clamminess clammy damp damply dampness dankly douse moist moisten monsoon rehydration remoisten rewet saturation semi-dry sleety soak soaked sodden You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Large in number or quantity drench | American Dictionarydrench verb[ T ] us/drentʃ/ to make someone or something extremely wet: The rain drenched my clothes. Examples of drenchdrench The turbulent journey ends on the dizzying heights of a church steeple, at which point the dreamer awakens drenched in sweat. These farms were randomly selected and no previous history of drench failures or concerns in nematode control was recorded through farmer questionnaires. I will wipe them out without trace, drench them in bitterness! This interpretation, although drenched in the scholarly literature of its subject, seems oddly old-fashioned. However, drip and drench are in complementary distribution, for the following reasons. If they go out themselves, they know they will do not good, but only get drenched with the others. Shepherds would have been drenched with the solutions which are absorbed through the skin. They were drenched in grease, in tatters, wore male clothes, frightful faces, shameless. Fungicide was applied as a soil drench at 2.5 g a. i. m - 2; control plots received equal amounts of water. They actually take theatre out of the bourgeois connotations in which it is drenched in this country and push it to an extent where your senses are overwhelmed. Q fever is often a severe febrile illness associated with prominent headaches, constitutional symptoms and drenching sweats. Imidacloprid was applied to the compost of 18 chrysanthemum plants (eight leaf stage) at the recommended field rate (0.2 g lx1 of water/compost drench). They were in a convoy and got drenched to the skin and were shivering with cold. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Happily, we no longer have rockpools and beaches drenched with chemicals which are often more harmful than the oil itself. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is completely incorrect to say—although people still believe it to be the case—that horticultural produce in this country is drenched in chemicals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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