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词汇 drenching
释义 drenching
present 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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Large in number or quantity

Examples of drenching


drenching

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


Under-dosing is a common feature in goat drenching, as specific dose rates have to be used at least for benzimidazoles and levamisole.
Q fever is often a severe febrile illness associated with prominent headaches, constitutional symptoms and drenching sweats.
Other problems such as drenching night sweats and incontinence obviously lead to extra bathing and laundering requirements.
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I have mentioned the way in which we are drenching our countryside in chemicals and draining the wetlands to add to the food surplus.
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For many other chemicals one would have to sign a poison book, if it were an ordinary drug—and we are drenching our lands in this stuff.
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Patients typically experienced prodromal symptoms of fever, headaches, muscle aches, chills, and drenching sweats.
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The craft featured two small boilers with pump connections for repelling boarders by drenching them with scalding water from her hoses.
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Norkiah gets even by drenching him with a pail of water.
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The storm crossed over the island and emerged as a weak hurricane after drenching the islands.
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Niclosamide is also extensively used in mass drenching of sheep.
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The drenching with water is doubtless a rain-charm.
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A sudden storm sometimes meant a drenching for the crowd of shelterless students and a ruined day.
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Monsoon rains, although hard and drenching, are not normally associated with high winds and waves.
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His understanding of the epidemiology of internal parasitism and parasitic diseases of sheep allowed him to develop control strategies that minimised reliance on drenching.
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Several of us were directly in the path of this, receiving a thorough drenching.
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