v.
- wet thoroughly; soak.
▸
[
often as adj. drenched]
cover liberally with something:
a sun-drenched clearing.
- forcibly administer a liquid medicine to (an animal).
n.
a dose of medicine administered to an animal.
▸archaic a draught of medicine or poison.
Etymology
OE drencan ‘force to drink’, drenc ‘a drink or draught’, of Gmc origin; rel. to drink.