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词汇 drenched
释义 drenched
past simple and past participle ofdrench
drench
verb[ T ]
uk /drentʃ/ us /drentʃ/
[ often passive ]
to make someone or something extremely wet: 使湿透;淋透;浇透
A sudden thunderstorm had drenched us to the skin.突如其来的雷阵雨把我们淋透了。
The athletes were drenched with sweat.运动员的汗水湿透了衣服。
She likes to eat her popcorn drenched in chilli sauce.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

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:
The opera was light on plot and positively drenched in comedy.
His 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.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Wet weather & wetness
clammily
clamminess
clammy
damp
damply
dampness
dankly
douse
flooded
moisten
monsoon
rehydration
remoisten
rewet
saturation
semi-dry
sleety
soak
soaked
sodden

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Examples of drenched


drenched

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


The turbulent journey ends on the dizzying heights of a church steeple, at which point the dreamer awakens drenched in sweat.
This interpretation, although drenched in the scholarly literature of its subject, seems oddly old-fashioned.
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.
In the untreated and orally drenched groups, worm length declined significantly at the high larval dose rate.
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.
They were in a convoy and got drenched to the skin and were shivering with cold.
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Happily, we no longer have rockpools and beaches drenched with chemicals which are often more harmful than the oil itself.
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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.
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Needless to say, there is no danger of the men getting drenched by going up on deck.
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One often reads accounts couched in pejorative terms such as "intensive"or"drenched in chemicals" and the like.
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Some of the "wets" are even getting drenched.
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He was working deep in the heart of a reactor when a pipe burst above his head and drenched him in water.
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But there is a fourth person who, even when it is raining and when everyone is drenched, still says that the weather is good.
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